andricperez197
I am 40 years old. To this day, I had not seen a worst, saddest ending in a movie. If you don't want to waste 1:30 hours of your time, do not watch this thing that the director calls a movie. If you are the kind of person who loves to be depressed, then yes, go ahead and waste 1:30 of your life. I gave this movie 1 star because zero is not allowed.
kosmasp
When you have a movie that is almost an open book to read (and that's without having seen any trailer), you do wonder how will they pull it off. The invitation was or rather is an example, that even if you have seen the trailer, it does hold on to the excitement and the tension. Something this movie can not do over the entire time.Still it's not a bad example of a thriller. It does have the acting talent at hand and even almost achieves to get away with the usual "come on, you should know better" we may utter at the expense of the characters on screen. So depending on your patience and what you think of certain character motivated decisions, the ending will have an impact - or not. And that will clearly be visible in your rating of this movie ...
ShunJackson
A part of me wonders if the evil couple faked their pregnancy and planned to do what they did all along or are they really that sadistic that they would go so far to kill someone else, destroy a family and then steal their baby. I was so super hoping for them to get caught...so I will admit, I was bothered by this as I went to sleep and then for the rest of the day after. What bothered me the most is how there seemed to be no real trust between the good couple. The husband seemed to immediately think in adverse to his wife and not believe her when she felt something was off about their neighbors. The wife, also should have headed her husband's intentions to ignore them and not involve them in their lives again, but she ignored his wishes as well. The acting was on-point and the directing was done very well. Kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time wondering what was going to come of this story.
jtindahouse
I really enjoyed 'The Ones Below' and was almost willing to give it a '9' rating, when I suddenly realised there was a glaring and unforgivable plot hole ruining the premise of the movie, or more importantly its twist. Usually I'm very forgiving when it comes to plot holes, because I'm pretty good at finding a way to justify them in some context and not allow it to destroy the experience for me. On this occasion though I simply could not do that. (SPOILERS) When the twist at the end is revealed that it was never actually the baby being thrown into the river, it makes no sense that no one has actually gone in searching and worked out there is no baby and launched a massive search. It would take the police literally 5 minutes, by the look of that river, to go in there and find whatever bundle was actually thrown in (I suspect the cat). In fact I kept expecting the father to dive in right there on the spot. You'd have to wouldn't you?It's a shame that a very poor and lazy piece of writing can take so much away from an otherwise great film. There was a lot of good elements here. There was the mystery side of things, where we were never entirely sure of character's motives and whether things were as they seemed or not. There was the dramatic side of things, with people genuinely dealing with loss and depression. And there was a lot of intensity in particular scenes, mostly created by some excellent acting by the main four actors in the cast. Putting aside the writing flaws in the ending, I did like it as a twist. It's not the most blindsiding of plot twists (because a part of you suspects this the entire film) but it still works. Definitely a film worth a look.
AD
