High-Rise
This story tells about a different drama we live through the life of a doctor who decides to move to another place. That story began when a doctor moved to a skyscraper in London. In that region, increasing tensions and class wars lead to a state of chaos that may be suffered by all. Perhaps, in the end, the life of the inhabitants of this tower begins to take another turn.
10 February 1976, London, England, UK
5 November 1993, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, UK
16 March 1975, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK
28 December 1981, New York City, New York, USA
March 21, 2017
High-Rise is just about the looniest garbage I have seen in a long while.February 18, 2017
High-Rise's rushed, unfocused narrative renders this more an admirable failure than a subversive cult classic in waiting.May 18, 2016
There is a goldmine of rich material here, all beautifully shot, but fatally lacking in focus or momentum.December 31, 2016
It's one of those works of futurism that seems simultaneously very prescient in its time, and slightly dated in ours. It underscores its points with a yellow highlighter.May 13, 2016
Director Ben Wheatley ("Kill List") is masterful with arresting imagery set in a dystopian spin on the '70s; less so with a compelling narrative.May 18, 2016
No matter how much one shades the characters, though, High-Rise defies adaptation because the most vivid character is the building itself.May 13, 2016
I soon found myself wanting to wash off the modernist stench of Wheatley's world. And yet it's entrancing all the same, so much so that like Laing and his fellows, I had no desire to leave the high-rise.May 18, 2016
It could take decades for critics and audiences to appreciate whatever genius lurks behind the chaos, but for the time being, it seems like little more than madness.March 16, 2017
It may be Wheatley's least accessible film to date - and also his best.December 31, 2016
Incoherent, pretentious and painfully self-indulgent.May 20, 2016
High-Rise switches genres effortlessly - black humour one moment, dystopic parable the next - until it becomes its own singular, horrifying, immensely captivating thing.January 15, 2017
This dystopian, apocalyptic tale of the downfall of civilization is set in a high rise apartment building. This can be viewed as a very dark comedy about how quickly society can break down, and how much fun that could be.