ABOVE AVERAGE

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2020)

Usual crock of reviews with most votes either 1, 9 or 10/10 when to anyone sensible it is none of those and to call it either a faultless classic or worst film of all time is daft.
Nor is it a film that you will "either love or hate" - I was neither way, it is ok, but definitely worth watching. I have seen a few of these types of films recently, including two Escape Rooms and it is better than anyone of those.
What was good and slightly unusual for these films is that generally the characters were not too annoying and you could root for them rather than the opposite.
As a spoiler those that made it to the end are the ones which you expected from the start, but there are a few other twists along the way, moments that you are not expecting and it never drags.
I am not sure where any laughing and funny scenes, with one possible exception in the lift, but not being funny did not hinder it at all.
The only faults I could find were that the scenes with the Japanese children needed explaining as to who was who and the force field around the area was given away early. It is quite Americanised in parts of the language but easy enough to follow.
All in all, worth a watch if you are fans of the genre and want better films than most of the slasher ones around.
A low 6/10.