Stairs

Females minus femininity doesn't mean fit for combat. Forced gender equality aside, absurdity, stupidity and nonsense are universal in this super-cheesey flick which tries to be relevant with senseless violence & murder loaded down with gore and unlikable characters... not even watchable enough to get to the premise of the never-ending stairs... when they got to the chopper and started dialoging if you can call it that, I stopped suffering this trash; to nver look back. Booo..

You don't need an overinflated budget and over the top special effects to keep people entertained. I quickly got bored with the transformers movies and was unable to finish that yawn-fest, the avengers, yet quite happily sat through this movie.

The Ascent is not what I thought it would be (and when a film has three titles, it is seldom a good omen of quality). I assumed it would be some mysterious staircase encountered on a mission by our intrepid special ops group, but it just turns out to be an officeblock. Saves on sets, I guess. We also get to see earlier scenes replayed many times, which is a treat. Also, the Eastern European country where the special ops action tales place is strangely blue (perhaps everyone involved was a big Eiffel 65 fan?). So, is watching a group of characters wandering up stairs, while periodically stopping for existential chats and the odd pointless fight while trying to keep apace of a demonic force while rave-style lights keep a-flashing exciting? Well, I'd rather be stuck in a timeloop endlessly watching a Shayne Ward concert than watch this film again.

Very average film that could have been executed better. The interesting storyline which could have been explored in more depth leaves you underwhelmed. You can see the film has a tiny budget and with this the action sequences dont have the desired effect. Go elsewhere for similar Groundhog Day style films. Happy Death Day or Edge of Tomorrow spring to mind

Low budget horror about a special ops task force who find themselves climbing a never ending stairwell starring Shayne Ward (ex Coronation Street and Pop star). Has a bit of a 'twilight zone' vibe. Set pieces are nicely executed, script and performances decent and there's a bold use of colour to set the tone.

This film is distributed under several names; 'The Ascent' AKA 'Stairs' AKA 'Black Ops'. Probably done so the unweary accidentally watch this God awful film twice. A psychological drama that certainly plays with the mind. It certainly disturbed mine.😒

There are some really excellent British films out there. This is not one of them. I realise it must be hard to make a whole film from an idea, but surely at some point you would step back and say, 'Actually, these people are b**** awful actors.'? Or someone points out that the dialogue is terrible? I'm a big fan of the never-ending staircase theme. Not of this film though.

But where everything else falls apart for this movie is the terrible acting cheap sets and the overall bad effort to make a somewhat boring movie out of a great concept in a few words the execution was just abismal

Potentially interesting idea if you can actually figure out what the idea was but with execrable acting , dreadful fight scenes, laugh-a-minute dialogue and the usual constant foul language which I feel these days is incredibly sad and denigrates all the old movies of the past that did not need to use it, combined with poor special effects quickly put paid to that notion! Film fell apart quite quickly and I began that "clock watching - when is it finishing scenario" after they started repeating the same interminably boring action sequence over and over again for over 2 hours...yes two hours of your life you will never get back. I read the reviews first and a "Promising first 10 minutes" was a bit generous and out by around 9 minutes! Barely a horror film, in fact barely a film at all it was that boring and tedious watching some of the worst acting ever put to celluloid...or was it a cheapo Xiaomi handy-cam? hard to be sure with the constant blue filter used to mask some of the poor scenery and effects! The film looks like it was partly shot on a field in the middle of Milton Keynes with a couple of old army vehicles borrowed from the local scrapyard and inside the stairwell of a block of flats in Peckham - sadly Del Boy and Rodney did not turn up in their three wheeler to alleviate the boredom! The fact the movie cannot be found on going under its name as I am watching it on the horror channel of "The Ascent" also makes me scratch my head; even more so when I do another search and up comes the Imdb page with a Dvd cover under the name "BLACK OPS" or under Amazon as Legacy - Black Ops but the name of the movie on Imdb is the highly original "STAIRS" makes me shake my head even more. It is as if they were looking for the best clickbait title they could find that would hoodwink the unfortunate punter...sadly none worked! As always I did hang in until the end....unfortunately!!! You would be better of just hanging yourself than watching this utter British drivel! Summary: Dreadful from first scene to the mind numbing last!

In the vein of "Groundhog Day", "Edge of Tomorrow" (aka Live, Die, Repeat), "R Point" and a few others, comes a story of consequences of action. There is a team of Mercenaries who are given a set of orders, which includes ensuring no one in the enemy camp is left alive. Unfortunately this includes a woman, who we later find out is a witch of some sort, once she is killed, the cycle of action/reaction/action starts. While this is good in theory, you have to have a solid cast of writers to give the cast something to build on, and in this case you don't. Not completely anyway. I like what the writer/director was trying to do, but it felt too long, with too many decisions of the actors (a fault squarely laid at the feet of the writer) lacking in common sense, especially for a military squad, who should know better. All the same, once the team starts figuring out what is happening to them, things move at a good pace toward a pretty realistic ending. A solid effort by a director still trying to find his style. I'll give it a 5 out of 10.