Nonureva Really Surprised!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

cmovies-99674 PROS: I should start out by saying that nothing in this movie is really bad or really spectacular. The acting however is an exception to that statement. Every character was alert the whole time the film was rolling. Even though certain actors weren't speaking they were still present in the dialogue. This made it engaging, because every actor influenced the storyline. This quality brought the other aspects of the film up as well. The movie was scarier because of this, the films progression was better because of this, and the movies ending was better because of this. Everything just rolled together making this quite a provocative movie.CONS: The only thing that frustrated me was the description of the movie. I expected to watch this and have an amazing horror film, but this movie barely scraped by being an action drama. I understand there was guns, but that doesn't make it a horror, and the director and producer misunderstood that.www.chorror.com

bowmanblue The first thing you should know about Tower Block is that it doesn't have much of a budget. And it shows. However, for all its financial shortcomings, it does its best to lift itself above the rest.The residents of the top floor of a high rise tower block - soon to be demolished - are targeted by a sniper who won't let them leave (alive, anyway). What follows is an hour and a half of a siege movie where they desperately try and find ways out. When I read the blurb about the film, I wondered how they could stretch that out for the full ninety minutes. I was pleasantly surprised when they did.It's no classic, but enough of the characters are fun, stupid, or evil enough to take pleasure in watching and the typical 'stupid decisions' they normally make in these sorts of films are kept to a minimum.My advice: suspend your disbelief and just give it a go if you like the sound of it. You could do worse (I found the only major plot point I found hard to stomach was how one sniper could effectively shoot everyone in 0.1 seconds as soon as he saw them at any window - seriously, he must be the best marksman in the world!).

gavin6942 Several months after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.Leading the way is Sheridan Smith, who I was not previously familiar with, despite her distinguished list of credits. She comes across as a strong actress and should be praised for that. Unfortunately, she is also a very, very hideous monster of a woman, and will thus probably not be seen in many American films. The British are less superficial about who they cast (as this film shows -- not one person was more attractive than average, giving it a more realistic feel).The idea that a sniper is taking out people in an apartment complex is pretty cool and makes for a good thriller. Sometimes I found it a bit hard to believe... one guy has to watch an entire building and is still able to pick people off within a second of their going near a window (with almost every shot being fatal). Does the killer never sleep or take bathroom breaks? How is he able to have his sights on twenty windows at once? Bonus points for including a Wilhelm Scream in the film, even if it seemed completely out of place. At least there was one momentary break of humor in this otherwise dark picture.

Coventry Derivative and largely formulaic thriller, but nevertheless one that remains suspenseful and compelling throughout the entire running time thanks to the raw & gritty atmosphere and a handful of extremely brutal shock-moments. Reminiscent to the other recent British flick "Attack the Block" in terms of tone & social setting, "Tower Block" takes place in a pauperized and crime-infested big city suburb where people abandoned all hope for prosperity long time ago already and desperately avoid every type of contact with fellow human beings. The film entirely takes place in a large apartment complex that is scheduled for destruction and only the residents of the top floor still live there. One Saturday morning, they are rudely awakened by a relentless psycho killer with a sniper rifle. He – or she – fires at everything that moves and placed booby-traps across the building. There's a obvious link with an unsolved murder committed in the block a few months earlier and now the asocial tenants are forced to rely on each other for survival. The biggest trumps for a film such as "Tower Block" are surprise and unpredictability. All the residents are equally insignificant, meaning that literally anyone of them could be next. And they could be next at any random and possible moment, too. Writers/directors duo James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson aptly play with these trumps, as the characters definitely don't die in the order you'd expect. Sniper murders can perhaps get a bit monotonous after a while, but there's enough diversity in killing methods and circumstances. Obviously there's quite a large number of holes and irrationality in the plot and the climax (as in: revelation of the sniper's identity) is weak and disappointing. The acting performances vary between adequate and amateurish, with good roles for tough blond gal Sheridan Smith and "Alien³" veteran Ralph Brown. In case you want to seek out more "serial sniper-killer" movies after this, I warmly recommended the almighty "Dirty Harry" but also the more obscure "Two-Minute Warning", "Targets" and "The Deadly Tower"