MC
Marco Castellini
•In an isolated clinic in a remote corner of Wyoming, Jake Malloy, an FBI agent who has become an alcoholic after the murder of his young fiancée, is undergoing a detoxification treatment. Following a snowstorm, the clinic, with its ten occupants, is cut off from the outside world; things get even more complicated when a mad killer begins to murder the guests of the center one by one... Five years after the good success of "So What Have You Done," Scottish director Jim Gillespie returns to direct a slasher movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Filmed near Vancouver, Canada, the film's most important character is not so much the resurrected Sly (who from "Carter's Revenge" to "Driven" goes from failure to failure) but the building that serves as the backdrop to the story: a reinforced concrete bunker, partly underground, clearly inspired by World War II shelters. Therefore, a claustrophobic setting for a thriller structured like the most classic of Agatha Christie's mysteries: "And Then There Were None." All the protagonists (coincidentally ten), locked inside a structure from which they cannot escape, begin to be eliminated one by one, with suspicion creeping in among them; typical ingredients that should (or at least should) keep the viewer under constant tension. The most positive surprise is that, for once, the film does not skimp on scenes of a certain violence, vaguely inspired by Fincher's masterpiece "Seven." In short, a decent slasher movie that lacks originality but can be enjoyable, especially for the less "demanding" viewer.