The Loft

Plot synopsis:
Five married men share ownership of an upmarket loft, which they use to discreetly meet their respective mistresses. When the body of a murdered woman is found in that loft, the men begin to suspect each other of having committed the gruesome crime, as they are the only ones with keys to the premises. Through flashbacks, which are intertwined with scenes from the present, the story is unraveled.
The five men are:
Vincent Stevens (Karl Urban): architect and designer of the building where the loft is situated; married to Barbara (Valerie Cruz) and has children; the one who initially suggests the five use the loft as a private oasis, he is set up by the other men to be accused of the murder.
Luke Seacord (Wentworth Miller): married to Ellie (Elaine Cassidy), who is an insulin-dependent diabetic; the one who discovered the body and initially calls Vincent and the others over to the loft. The police later insinuate that he is attracted to Vincent. He also recorded the men's activities in the loft without them knowing.
Dr. Chris Vanowen (James Marsden): a psychiatrist married to Allison (Rhona Mitra), half-brother to Philip. Chris and Philip have a half-sister, Zoe (Madison Burge). The most reluctant of the men to the idea and the last to accept a key to the loft, Chris eventually does so because he is attracted to Ann (Rachael Taylor), who eventually becomes his mistress. She tells Chris not to fall in love with her because she is a prostitute. He gives her his key as proof he does not use the loft with other women.
Marty Landry (Eric Stonestreet): married to Mimi (Kali Rocha); a heavy drinker and an obvious lech. He and Mimi become separated when a woman he fooled around with shows up at his home.
Philip Williams (Matthias Schoenaerts): half-brother to Chris as they have the same mother; recently married to Vicky (Margarita Levieva), who is the only daughter of a wealthy property developer, who is also his boss. He is a drug user who grew up in a dysfunctional household with his abusive father; very protective of his younger sister Zoe, and warns the other men off having sex with her.
The murder victim is Sarah Deakins (Isabel Lucas): Vincent, Luke, and Marty met her at a bar; both Vincent and Luke are attracted to her, but she hooks up with Vincent and becomes attached to him. At a party they are both attending, Sarah threatened to tell Vincent's wife about the affair as a way to have them break up, but she is dissuaded from this by Luke. She seemingly tries to commit suicide at the loft, by taking pills with champagne. She is discovered by Luke, who calls Chris, Marty and Philip, showing them a note to Vincent. The note read "See you in the next life"; this note is taken from the loft by Chris.
The men were motivated to set Vincent up by Luke, who showed them DVDs of Vincent having sex with Marty's wife, Mimi; Chris's prostitute, Ann (who Vincent had paid to allow Chris to seduce her, so that he would take a key to and use the loft), and Zoe, Philip and Chris's younger sister. Three of the men leave to set up their alibis, with Philip remaining at the loft to stage the scene. He takes some cocaine and cuts Sarah's wrists, using her bloodied finger to write a Latin phrase similar to that in her suicide note. He then handcuffs Sarah's right hand to the bed.
Over the course of the movie, as the five men discuss what to do with the body, Luke, Chris, Marty, and Philip drug Vincent, strip and handcuff him to the body on the bed. Before Vincent passes out completely, Chris tells him about Sarah's suicide and the contents of her note. While being questioned by the police, Vincent tells them of the set-up, but they do not believe him as the only prints found were Vincent's and Sarah's. They also have the DVDs of his sexual exploits, except the ones with Mimi, Ann, and Zoe; they won't believe him that Luke made the videos and the DVDs of the other men were not found. The police also mention that all four men have alibis for that morning — Chris and Luke were seen together having breakfast, Marty was at his office, Philip was alibied by his father-in-law (who was blackmailed with information about his own cheating, information Philip had because he knew Vincent used that same information to blackmail his father-in-law to give him a contract on a project).
Releasing Chris from interrogation, Detective Huggins (Kristin Lehman) tells him that Vincent has been arrested for murder; he is surprised as he thought Vincent would only be implicated in Sarah's suicide. The detective further states that the pills did not kill Sarah, that her wrist cuts were not self-inflicted, the prints on the knife were Vincent's and they didn't find a suicide note. The surprised Chris thanks Huggins and leaves. Outside of the police station, he reaches into his jacket pocket, only to find that the suicide note Luke gave to him is gone. He then walks to the loft and confronts Luke about the missing note. After initially denying that he had it, Luke leads Chris to the note, which was in the garbage. Chris looks at the note and wonders why Luke would get rid of the only evidence of the attempted suicide, speculating that Luke, not Sarah, was the author of the note. Luke then tells Chris everything; he framed Vincent, because he was attracted to Sarah himself, and felt that Vincent stood between him and Sarah.
We see that Luke had gone after Sarah the night she almost told Vincent's wife about the affair. He told her that Vincent was using her and not worth it, and that he could treat her better. She rebuffs him, saying she felt nothing for Luke. Hurt, Luke turns around to find that his wife saw him talking to Sarah. When Sarah returned to visit Vincent at the loft, Luke showed up and drugged Sarah, trying to kill her — out of "love" — with an insulin overdose. He then staged the suicide with the pills, champagne bottle, and suicide note. Chris then tells him that Vincent is being charged with murder as Sarah hadn't been dead when they left her with Philip. Luke then states that technically it was Philip who killed Sarah and that he will clean the situation up. When Chris says no more cleaning up, Luke pulls out a kitchen knife and threatens him. Sirens can be heard and Chris says he called the police, told them everything and that it is over. He and Luke struggle, and he gets the knife from Luke. Luke tells Chris to tell Ellie and their kids that he's sorry; he then jumps from the loft's balcony, killing himself.
Six months later, Mimi and Marty are reconciled, Philip is facing trial for manslaughter, and Chris is divorced, sharing custody of his kids. He runs into Ann after leaving a bar, and she asks if he needs the loft key, that he had given her for them to meet up. Chris mentions the key would not work as Vincent now lives at the loft, since it was the only thing his wife left him with from their divorce. Ann asks if Chris would like to join her for a drink sometime.

Tags: murder, flashback

Review:
The premise of the movie is the best part about it: Five guys have the keys to a secret loft where they can freely cheat on their wives, but one day they find a dead girl on the bed and have to figure out who did it.
I really tried to like it, it's just hard to care about a movie when you're just watching a bunch of stupid people do stupid things.
If you don't care about plot and just want to see a bunch of good looking people act like complete jerks for an hour and a half, you can get a kick out of The Loft.
When a girl winds up dead in a pool of blood in the loft, the five men panic as they attempt to unravel who she is and where she came from.Taking some cues from Hitchcock (and not exactly with a fraction of Hitch's poise), "The Loft" is an overall entertaining film, but the script at times is the equivalent of a cheap Rubik's cube— it looks fine, it's a fun puzzle, I guess, but it's really just not that impressive overall.The film shifts between past and present, unraveling the narrative through flashbacks which are sandwiched between the current dilemma of the four men arguing in the loft over the corpse of the dead blonde.
James Marsden and Wentworth Miller are among the film's greatest star power here, but the cast overall is really underwhelming, and the performances are at times borderline campy as the men play up their roles as buffoonish plutocratic mattress hounds.The finale cements my feelings of the film as an underwhelming thriller that seems more suited for television than the silver screen, but I still can't say it was totally not worth the time.
with just a couple of unexpected surprise in the end ;)With the same director as the Belgian version of the movie Erik Van Looy and pretty much the same writers i'v heard they kept it just as it went in the original.
:PAs for the cast, the Leads whom i only know from TV they were all engaging and well invested in their roles, Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller and Eric Stonestreet and even the short appearances of Matthias Schoenaerts who was actually in the original Belgian movie "Loft (2008)".Overall it went fine,, well at least let's say better than what i'v read in some reviews ..
It's arguably suiting his character, but it's still distracting.The concept of this story lends itself to a much darker movie, and this just feels like a missed opportunity.
.. a movie that's far more entertaining than most of the crap produced these days.Really nice acting, cringe-worthy characters (in a good way) played by talented & believable actors with a nice suspenseful/thrilling plot.
The loft has simply out smarted itself, a simple, yet at times intriguing plot desperately seeks for every twist and turn it can find and uses them, I don't even think M.
In a little more detail, the plot of the movie is based around 5 guys sharing a loft where they can bring their mistresses (which is refreshingly original, even though it's a remake of a remake) and eventually end up involved in an investigation that could land them all in jail.
This film was a complete and utter disappointment in terms of the plot and performances, now i have to check out the original 2008 version and see if this movie converted crap into more crap or ruined a good original idea.
Maybe that is why it couldn't attract good actors and actresses.There are no shortage of successes of remaking foreign movies into Oscar winning masterpieces like "The girl with the dragon tattoo", "The Departed" just named of few.
Pacin of this movie is good, at running time 1 h 45 min this movie barely drags and is entertaining from start till finish.Overall, "The Loft" is a satisfying mystery thriller - "who dunnit".
The trailer looked intriguing to me, but the film is filled with repulsive characters (one is a coked-out rapist, another is a slimeball who makes it public that he wants to bang his "friend"'s kid sister, another is a closet homosexual who secretly films his "friend" banging random girls in the loft - why would any of these people associate with each other in the first place?) and a screenplay with a new twist in nearly every scene, which merely becomes over complicated and far too confusing after the second twist.
The Loft is nothing different, it sucks like the month of January and February dose.Now let's talk about the good things in this movie: If you and your friends where drunk one night and you all want a good time destroying and movie this is the one.Now for the bad and these a lot of bad: Every character in this movie is A: Unlikable.
I bet right now they regret being in this movie, because this film makes them look bad has actors and character's.The writing has well is probably the worst I've seen so far this year.
But on a positive side this movie can be best use when your friends around your house and there's nothing to watch, put this in and you can talk through out the film, it's okay I'm not going to tell you to be quiet, I will be talking too..
Directed by Eric Von Looy, The Loft is a sleazy and, at times, incoherent mystery thriller that is paced very well and stands out as one of the first possible guilty pleasures of 2015.
Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Mathias Schoenaerts, and Eric Stonestreet, the cast has very little to work with here in regards of a script but manage to pull off some decent performances considering the circumstances.
Overall, The Loft isn't a bad way to spend a rainy day but for those looking for something more than your average thriller will walk away disappointed..
A film you just wish someone like David Fincher tackled, The Loft is a B grade movie through and through and a movie that makes no illusions to what it is and Erik Van Looy's English language remake of his original foreign thriller of the same name is a movie that despite its quite obvious flaws and sometimes downright weird acting turns is an enjoyable guilty pleasure that for all sakes and purposes shouldn't be as watchable as it is.This above statement is by no means a glowing recommendation however, as The Loft is quite frequently a terrible movie that is saved by a plot line so unbelievable yet bewilderingly intriguing that you can't help but watch and try figure out who's done what, who's betrayed who and who can be a bigger bigot than the next guy.
It's clear that this material was enough for Van Looy's original film to be well regarded and without having seen it, it was likely less sowed into B grade fodder than this long shelved Hollywood remake that was filmed in 2011 yet only released this year and perhaps the companies behind this redoing clued onto the films biggest flaw, the un-likability of EVERY single character in the film.This above statement is supposed to be taken literally as all jokes aside, The Loft just might well be the most terrible ensemble committed to screen in many moons.
When reading through the name cast of Karl Urban, James Marsden and yes Modern Family's lovable blob Eric Stonestreet you may think this is a strange statement to make and the actors aren't movie ruining horrible (even though Prison Break's Wentworth Miller try's his hardest to be) but there characters sure are.How much can we really relate to a bunch of guys that get together to co-own a seedy city loft apartment where they're free to do anything to anyone at any time and when this crew of calculating derelicts share screen time the cringe factor goes up to almost unbearable levels and by the film's final act you'll soon come to realise that the films reveal isn't all it was cracked up to be from such a loaded plot driver.For all intents and purposes The Loft is a lot more entertaining than it has any right to be but that is almost entirely due to its mysterious lifeless body that puts our creepy bunch of males into a sticky predicament and take away that and concentration towards the films "twist", script and characters unearths a film that should be a whole new league of worse than it actually is.
thing...The story is beyond uninteresting, the multiple explanations are boring and the ending is ultimately laughable.Plus, acting is so bad, especially from Wentworth Miller and Matthias Schoenaerts, but it's not really a surprise, is it ?
If you like who dun it movies, this is for you.This is a great thriller, with lots of twists.
It starts out alright, albeit pretty slow; the decent acting and nice visuals at least delivers a bit of entertainment enough to sustain your (or at least my) interest.A big problem is the fact that there isn't really any likable people in the movie and they seemingly become less and less likable as the movie progresses, half of the main cast are genuinely awful people and that makes it a little hard in the end to care what's potentially going to happen to them.And it doesn't help that they throw in a tons of random twists that doesn't make any sense with what we've just witnessed prior, some will surely argue differently because they feel that a flashback of selected clips warrants any twist but I don't really buy cheap tricks of the mind twists like that.
You have to look at the big picture, and if you do you'll see that the actions that led them to where they ended up doesn't make sense.Like I said it has some qualities to it but really in the end not a very good movie and I won't watch this again cause I know it still won't make any sense the second time..
They are Vince (Karl Urban), a married architect, Luke (Wentworth Miller), a married diabetic who finds himself going along with his friends more often than not, Chris (James Marsden), a married psychiatrist, Marty (Eric Stonestreet), a married, loudmouth alcoholic, and Phillip (Matthias Schoenaerts), Chris's married half-brother.
With this, the men begin to reveal to each other, and their spouses, their intentions and their ugly path of adultery.I'm always up for a good erotic thriller and Erik Van Looy's The Loft is serviceable genre-fare, by that standard.
When we are lead down a path of twists and turns, most of which clearly written by the writing team of Bart De Pauw and Wesley Strick, it's clear we cannot trust any of these characters and that makes the experience that much more intriguing.The Loft, however, has its own share of shortcomings, most of which come in the acting department.
The efforts to get this film a release in America likely wasn't worth the laborious process and the agonizing wait for a release.Starring: James Marsden, Karl Urban, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Isabel Lucas, Rhona Mitra, and Rachael Taylor..
The Loft is a remake of the 2008 Dutch Belgian-language thriller Loft, starring James Marsden, Karl Urban, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, and Matthias Schoenaerts as five married friends who rent out a high quality penthouse where they each secretly meet their lover and engage in their most desired sexual fantasies.
If there is anyone I could possibly recommend this film to, it would the least demanding suspense- thriller that do not care about dull characters and a plot that makes very little sense..
Five friends: Vincent (Karl Urban), Chris (James Marsden), Luke (Wentworth Miller), Marty ( Eric Stonestreet), and Phillip (Matthias Schoenaerts) are all married, but share a Hi-Scale Loft to accommodate their sexual dalliances and each has his own key that cannot be duplicated.
I was genuinely shocked by who killed the woman.I gave an 8 just purely, because I would have liked to have seen where a few of the characters ended up etc however this does not take anything away from the movie.
I'm not going to give an suppliers away but I'm going to say the acting is good with a great cast involved, the script and story line are well wrote and no real plot holes in the film.
While writing a thriller or a suspense drama one not only needs to know what to hold back and what not to, but also if that would make sense or not to the story.It's definitely worth a watch but doesn't live up to good writing.
The cast is excellent, the plot keeps you guessing and there are several twists in the film that neither the characters nor the audience see coming.Five lifelong friends, Vincent (Karl Urban), Chris (James Marsden), Luke (Wentworth MIller),Marty (Eric Stonestreet) and Phillip (Matthias Schoenarrts) share a secret loft for cheating on their wives.
I have to say that most of this 1.5 h or so film felt intriguing - the benchmark of events was thrilling, the leading performances were at least good (I found James Marsden and Wentworth Miller more versatile than others), but then a kind of over- sophistication started to prevail and their solutions did not seem realistic any more - in view of modern applications the police have today, or the doubtfulness of motives behind.
It's hard to find anyone to like when all the men are lusty louts, all their wives are killjoys and all the single women in the movie are whores – but the combination makes for a pretty nifty thriller.
The result is a film that functions like a breath of fresh air, even while we feel somewhat claustrophobic as the walls close in on the main characters.At the opening of a new building designed by up-and-coming architect Vincent Stevens (Karl Urban), we learn that Vince has reserved a prime loft apartment as a safe zone for the extramarital activities of himself and his other four married friends.
As the story unfolds, as we would want in any good thriller, the red herrings emerge, the surprise reveals shock and the twists, well thrill."The Loft" meets every expectation and even exceeds them.
My god this movie's baaadddd...-the actors are not good for their particular roles, -the action is no action at all, - the subject is as someone else said about "sleezy" guys, - the outcome borrrrring(like the actual ending is that the "very talented psychiatrist" goes into the sunset with the girl???whatttt???), -after a bad fight scene the bad guy just jumps???
Five friends share the use of a loft, where they entertain girlfriends and mistresses out of the prying eyes of their wives.The movie starts with the finding of a woman's body cuffed to the bed.
How can they sort out the mess without their wives hearing about their loft?Some of the characters do not seem very 'real' and I found the end rather disappointing but it's an average watch and a few twists kept me guessing until near the end..
It is a movie about a group of men who rent a loft to carry out activities without their wives knowing but a woman ends up dead and they have to figure out who did it.
Trouble starts when, one fine morning, a beautiful young woman is found murdered there, killed possibly by an intruder but more likely by one of the five.Though the movie becomes a bit undisciplined and even overwrought over the course of its running time (and that includes some of the performances), "The Loft" scores as a fairly engaging and effective whodunit, one that manages to incorporate some relevant and timely reflections on how the over-privileged 1% spend their time and money.
He had Good comedic timing and his character was believable.In that since the movie makes a great attempt to find a well rounded room of cheating husbands.
James Marsden is a good actor and does is role with felling, what happened to Wentworth Miller???man i liked him in prison break but here i understand why he doesn't have job and is not in more TV shows or movies.
When the music helps to ruin a movie isn't a good sign, in the end the soundtrack begins to make sense for the first time, but ...a little to late.
It tells the story of five married guys who share a loft together, to use for secret affairs, and then find the body of a dead woman in it.
The film stars Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts (who also costarred in the original movie, playing the same part), Isabel Lucas, Rachel Taylor and Rhona Mitra.
Still it's a pretty poorly made, and trashy, erotic thriller.Five good friends, who are all married, agree to share a penthouse loft together; where they can take their mistresses to have affairs.
Boasting good cast and decent drama thriller, the film has pretty interesting twists and turns.
-The Loft (2015) movie review: -The Loft is a mystery suspense film about a group of guys who have this loft where they can pretty much keep things from their wives.
I liked the various twists they had in the movie, and it was nice to see Wentworth Miller acting again.
The cast were good the story was OK nothing great but it is worth the watch even if it is only for the one time.
As for the characters they all play, well, apart from one or two, none are really all that likable, including the female roles, so you kind of end up not caring what happens to any of them.Anyway, The Loft does have it's moments, and overall it is a watchable thriller, but it's really nothing to get too excited about..