Mord im Loft (2014)

Mord im Loft: Directed by Erik Van Looy. With Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet. Five married guys secretly share a penthouse loft in the city where they can carry out hidden affairs. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare, when they discover the dead body of a woman in the loft one of the group must be involved.

“From the opening moments of u0026#39;The Loftu0026#39; you can guess pretty much exactly what youu0026#39;re in for. A u0026quot;whodunnitu0026quot; mystery with plentiful twists, where not everything is as it seems. Knowing that much doesnu0026#39;t hurt a film at all. In fact it makes the next couple of hours something to be very much looked forward to – or at least for me it does. You could say the format of the genre is lacking in originality, but you could rarely say two films are the same and anyone who says they saw the ending coming is almost always lying or exaggerating a fleeting suspicious they had. This is why I love mystery-thrillers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026#39;The Loftu0026#39; is a fun watch – nothing more, nothing less. It achieves exactly what it sets out to. The 5 lead actors were all pretty solid and gave credible performances. I think I will always see Eric Stonestreet as his brilliant character from u0026#39;Modern Familyu0026#39;, so I struggled a bit at first to take him seriously in his role here, but heu0026#39;s good enough of an actor to get past that. The dialogue was tightly written and every detail that could otherwise have been questioned was covered well. The only fault I could find was the score sometimes drowning out the dialogue which can be annoying in a film like this where you are trying to catch every spoken detail. Altogether though a fine movie.”