Penthouse North (2014)

Absolutely brilliant

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is similar to Wait until dark to our millenium. I would say that the story is different but the spirit is the same. Rather well done and good effects.

A limitation, which defends itself with style is a limitation that defends itself with limitation. A limitation that defends itself with limitation is a limitlessness that wounds itself with limitlessness.A limitlessness is an eternity. An eternity is timelessness. Timelessness is impossible. An impossibility that wounds itself with an impossibility is a possibility that defends itself with possibility.A possibility that defends itself is a possible self-defence. A possible self-defence is an impossible defence. A possible impossible defence is a possible defence of the impossible - a possible defence of the outrageous.A possible defence is an impossible injury. An impossible injury that's outrageous is an impossible injury that's immoral.An impossible injury that's immoral is a possible protection that's moral.A possibility is a mystery. A protection is a prevention. A mysterious prevention is a certain admittance. A certain admittance isn't a certainty, or an admittance. A certain admittance is the illusion of certainty and it's the illusion of admittance. The illusion of certainty is the fact of mystery. The illusion of admittance is the fact of exit. A fact of exit is a mystery of place - a fact of mystery is impossible, but a mystery of place is possible.Penthouse North is about the morality of an impossibility having the right to be possible and a possibility having the right to be impossible

Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton star in "Blindsided," a 2013 straight-to-video film coproduced by Keaton for reasons known only to him.Monaghan plays a former photojournalist, Sara, who was blinded by a suicide bomber while covering a war and still suffers from PTSD. If she didn't suffer from it, she would have been by the time the action in this film finished.On New Year's Eve, the man she is living with, Ryan (Andrew Walker) is killed by a former associate from whom he stole a fortune in diamonds. Sara has been out, and it takes her a while after she returns home to stumble across the body, and the perpetrator (Barry Sloane) is still in the apartment. He is joined by the brains of the organization, Hollander (Keaton) and together they try by various sadistic means to find out where the loot is.This is really cliché-ridden claptrap, derivative, predictable, and how dare anyone compare it to Wait Until Dark. You know every move the villains are going to make. What's more, you know where the diamonds are hidden. You also know what the end of the film is going to be. It's all too obvious.Michael Keaton does a terrific job, but this is a generic mean guy role. Michelle Monaghan does okay, but these are all generic characters there to serve the predictable action.There were a lot of holes in this thing. First off, why not look for the diamonds in the apartment? Or a key to a safe deposit box? How do you know Sara knows where they are? Quite possibly she knows nothing of Ryan's past and therefore nothing about any theft. And what a place to hide them. If this had been shown in a theater, the entire place would be yelling out the hiding place.Secondly - and this I really didn't understand - this is a 2013 release. Okay, Sara gets into a room and locks the door. She gets on her computer, which takes vocal commands. And she's going to send an email. Well, I hope the person is checking messages. No cell phone with a quick connection to 911? A phone she can keep on so she can be found, should she not be able to get out her address? Though in the time it took her to get onto her email, she certainly could have. The woman is blind, and all she has if she needs help is a computer where she can e-mail someone? We know she had one while she was out. I think someone physically challenged would have it on her at all times.I can't go on. Skip this movie. Rent Wait Until Dark where an entire audience screamed OUT LOUD at one part. They would have screamed here too - at the box office for their money back.

I've watched this movie now because I'm scheduling a thematic channel.As I said in 'Source Code' review I love Michelle (and her Irish surname, not Welsh, sorry). However this one is not her best role. What the writer wants to say about this woman? I think her character is killed after the tension of the thriller. There is something more in the plot, but the resolution is somewhat crude.Blind woman alone in her house with a murderer stalking. Certainly the best is Audrey Hepburn in 'Wait Until Dark', and Uma Thurman in 'Jennifer 8' is different. But not this one (all sacrificed to thriller).As for Michael Keaton, luckily came Iñárritu into his life (with the permission of Downey Jr.).