The architect Vincent
Stevens; the psychiatrist Chris Vanowen; the real estate agents Luke Seacord
and Marty Landry; and Chris' half-brother Philip Trauner are married and best
friends. Vincent proposes his friends to share a wonderful penthouse loft in a
brand new building designed by him to become their rendezvous instead of using
their credit cards for love affairs and one night stands in hotels. When they
discover the body of a beautiful woman cuffed on the bed in the loft, they have
argument to find who is the responsible and secrets are disclosed affecting
their friendship. Written by Claudio
Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Courtesy of Internet Movie
Database)
THE LOFT is directed by Erik Van Looy, written by Wesley
Strick and produced by Hilde De
Laere, Matt DeRoss, Paul Green, and Adam Shulman. My initial thoughts on this
film before viewing was that the concept was interesting and it may make for a
good film. Upon watching it made me think of another film called “STAG” with a
similar storyline. As for The LOFT as the story unfolded my greatest grip was
with their casting, which seemed like an unlikely band of friends. The pace of
the film was methodical, but in the way it told the story without revealing the
who done it moment to early we were paraded through flashbacks that reveled
enough of each characters back-story to view them as a suspect. I’ve always
viewed stories told in this manner to be intriguing, but in this film I felt it
was used to direct the viewer into thinking one of the friends was the main
suspect over another. I felt THE LOFT was entertaining, but maybe I was more
entertained when I saw the film STAG; yet I gave it 3 stars.
