High-Rise (2015)
Storyline
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Directors
Cast
Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Guillory, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Luke Evans, Enzo Cilenti, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Julia Deakin, Graham Duff, Fenella Woolgar, Emilia Jones, Neil Maskell, Bill Paterson, Tony Way, Augustus Prew, Victoria Wicks, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando, Eileen Davies, Kenneth Hadley, Sara Dee, Faolan Morgan, Chris Patrick-Simpson, Toby Williams, Leila Mimmack, Matt Faris, Stacy Martin, Patrick Fitzsymons, Daniel Renton Skinner, Karen Hassan, Louis Suc, Alexandra Weaver, Joseph Harmon, Dylan Edwards, Siobhán O'Kelly, Maggie Cronin, Patrick Buchanan, Colin Ash, Colin Carnegie, Michael Condron, Richard Croxford, Monique Kelly
Trailer
Reviews
83
Wheatley is all about control of tone and how he's using this big obvious metaphor. His film is alive with human behavior, heightened at times and stylized as hell, but alive and identifiable and crackling with a wicked energy.
80
Working with writer (and co-editor) Amy Jump again, Wheatley wades into the prescient 1975 text, delivering a complex, fluid interpretation which is respectful and almost-faithful while still being its own beautiful, crazed beast.
80
Ballard’s concept is meticulously, lovingly recreated, like a museum exhibit of itself. But the tone is always more playful than it is disturbing, a walled-off black joke which opts out of saying anything new.
75
High-Rise isn't an entirely cohesive accomplishment, but that's part of its zany appeal. While in certain ways his weakest film, it maintains the morbid entertainment value found throughout Wheatley's work while marking an ambitious step up in scale.
60
The politics serves as footnote to the aesthetic for Wheatley and High-Rise is certainly style over substance. For fans of the British director, that may well be more than enough.
