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High-Rise

2015

Ben Wheatley

Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans ...

5.0

5,895

Sci-Fi. Thriller Life style in the concrete jungle and inner suburban life, with underground fights, money, gangsters and girls revolves around four different characters and their stories of life, love and misery, crime and murder.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce Empire	"A dazzling, troubling, ugly and unsettling film (...) Don’t expect a thriller in the seat-edge sense, but you will be thrilled — and repulsed — by this bold, faithful adaptation of Ballard (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A complex, fluid interpretation which is respectful and almost-faithful while still being its own beautiful, crazed beast.(...) Ballard fans should be satisfied; newcomers could find it difficult."	POS
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A disaster movie on many levels (...) Wheatley and Jump have turned the lean, lucid architecture of Ballard's prose into a baggy, disjointed, sprawling grand folly of a movie (...) High-Rise is ultimately an ambitious, brilliant failure."	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A flashy and frequently incoherent adaptation (...) Those with an appetite for aberrant creative visions could make “High-Rise” a hot cult property"	NEU
United Kingdom	Henry Barnes The Guardian	"Wheatley has made High Rise his story, instead of Ballard’s. That’s fine – but, unfortunately, it’s a less interesting take (:..) It’s not a disaster, but the faults stack up (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"'High-Rise' becomes monotonous—a prisoner to its own gruesome escalation (...) The movie ultimately feels both too glib and too hermetically sealed to resonate beyond its chaotic interiors (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Ben Wheatley's shiny, luxuriously appointed JG Ballard adaptation serves up orgiastic mayhem on a silver platter (...) Ballard's concept is meticulously, lovingly recreated (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"The screenwriter Amy Jump and director Ben Wheatley are less concerned with the message than with the madness, and the resulting picture is more style than substance (...) the withholding nature of the movie creates a barrier that makes it difficult for the audience to share in the mayhem."	NEU

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