The Ones Below Review

Film critic Nick Duncalf reviews British psychological thriller The Ones Below, starring Clemence Poesy, Stephen Cambell Moore and David Morrissey, for #60secondreviews. A young couple with a baby on the way find that their new but reclusive downstairs neighbours are also expecting a child.

The Ones Below Cast:
Clémence Poésy ... Kate
David Morrissey ... Jon
Stephen Campbell Moore ... Justin
Laura Birn ... Theresa
Deborah Findlay ... Tessa

The Ones Below Full Review Transcript:

The Ones Below stars British actor Stephen Campbell Moore and French actress Clemence Poesy although she is playing English in this as a middle-class couple who are expecting a baby and live in a beautiful flat it's a first-floor flat though and a new set of neighbours move in downstairs the ones below and they're played by David Morrissey as a banker with horrendous taste in primary color v necks and his younger much younger Scandinavian wife they're also
expecting and they start to have this kind of parallel relationship you wonder whether they're going to become friends or not this movie's been written directed by a playwright called David Farr and it can sometimes feel a bit like a play it can't quite decide though whether it's gonna be a Harold Pinter play into a prickly and intellectual or whether it's just gonna be an out-and-out psycho thriller like single white female or the hand that rocks the cradle and that's the problem the performances are good and the writing is ok but it doesn't really know what it is and it moves towards a climax that is meant to be a big twist but you sort of see it coming a mile off.