I'm a strong believer in the notion that a "dark comedy" should actually have humorous elements to it. Unfortunately, there is very little about these four characters that is remotely amusing (with all apologies to Christoph Waltz, who comes off the best, but only because he has the least horrible character to play). Thirteen minutes into the movie, we couldn't understand why Winslet and Waltz hadn't yet left, and spent the remaining hour annoyed by the devices which kept them there -- an elevator outage, while trite, would at least have been believable.
I feel like there's been a sore lack of good Jodie Foster roles lately; was her supporting role in Inside Man 6 years ago the last good one?
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