Film Review: "Devil"
Title: Devil (2010) Director: John Erick Dowdle LB Rating: 1/5 Devil is a half-baked film, relying on its borrowed premise to carry the entire mess. The film opens with Detective Bowden in therapy, dealing with the death of his wife and son who were hit-and-run five years ago. A suicide later happens nearby, so Bowden started investigating the building where the jumper came from. The suicide was a foreboding of the things to come in the building. Bowden would then be involved in an attempt to save five people trapped in the elevator of the said building. As time goes by, the trapped individuals are mysteriously and brutally killed, one by one. Bowden, believing that one of them is the murderer, tries his best to control the situation. It was later revealed that one of the trapped individuals is responsible for the death of Bowden's family. Bowden surprisingly forgives him. But the individuals die anyway, as one of them was shown to be the devil. Five people trapped in an elevator a...