This is the definition of deeply middling. It's a reasonable idea - a thriller in a lift as a girl is isolated, tortured by regular descents and mocked on a videoscreen by the dubious Russian bad guy who's kidnapped her dad. Except this keeps on ducking out for overly-expisitory flashbacks and doesn't quite have the confidence to stick to its simple setup - meaning that there's a lot of dangling threads left when the film is finished - I must admit I'm getting annoyed with films that seem to leave key exposition out and claiming it's setup for an unlikely-to-happen sequel. Still, it's got a couple of decent visuals, some reasonable performances here and there and hey, it's Australian, so I'm very slightly proud of it anyway?
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