Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another.
The Loft is a competent but unspectacular thriller built around a clever enough premise—five men sharing a secret loft for affairs only to find a dead body there. The plot has some genuinely twisty moments and keeps suspense reasonably well, earning a modest above-average mark. Acting is middling; the ensemble cast (Karl Urban, James Marsden) does serviceable work but no one elevates the material. Cinematography is standard glossy thriller fare with nothing distinctive. Novelty is low—the premise, while initially intriguing, leans heavily on familiar noir tropes, non-linear flashback structure done many times better elsewhere, and predictable character archetypes. The ending delivers a reasonably satisfying, if somewhat overwrought, reveal that ties the threads together adequately.