A group of douchebags buy a loft together so they can cheat on their wives and girlfriends, which is all well and good until they find a dead woman waiting for them in bed one day. At least one of them is responsible, but who?

This is the premise of The Loft, a thriller directed by Erik Van Looy, a man apparently so desperate for ideas that he decided to remake his own Belgian movie.

Sadly, the movie doesn't love up to its premise. With a bland, everyone-looks-alike cast featuring James Marsden and Karl Urban (as well as two beautiful blondes--Isabel Lucas and Rachael Taylor--who looked so similar I didn't realize they were different characters until the end), a choppy storytelling approach and a shrug-inducing reveal, the execution offers little of worth.  The Loft jumps around in time to offer you pieces of the puzzle, but in fact all it's doing is hiding, and not very well, the reality that the puzzle isn't very interesting. When the puzzle is finally assembled, it's incredibly disappointing.

The Loft doesn't have a lot to offer, but it is fairly fast-paced. At least it's over before you can fully realize how bad it is.

Review by Erik Samdahl.