Brick

2025 [GERMAN]

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 15 reviews
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 1361 1.4K

Plot summary

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

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German 2.0
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1 hr 40 min
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1.86 GB
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German 5.1
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24 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 100+
1.69 GB
1920*816
German 5.1
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 99

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MLVC4E 5 / 10

A Confinement That Promised More Than It Delivered

At first, it looks like it's going to be a good movie. A simple but powerful premise: a couple on the verge of emotional collapse wakes up to find their apartment sealed off by a mysterious black wall. From there, you might expect a mix of tension, claustrophobic sci-fi, and psychological drama. And for a while, Brick delivers. But then, it loses its way.The beginning works: Tim (Matthias Schweighöfer) buries himself in work, Olivia (Ruby O. Fee) wants to run from a relationship that feels empty. Just when she decides to leave, the whole building shuts down. No signal, no water, no windows. At first, you're hooked because you're asking the same questions they are: what's going on? Why them? What's behind those walls?But soon the script starts to stumble. More characters show up, each with their own set of clichés: the shady cop, the troubled young couple, the sick old man, the innocent granddaughter... and instead of adding tension, they dilute it. The relationships that could have meant something stay flat, and the central mystery - the wall, the entrapment, the "why" - fades as the story drifts into forced dialogue and scenes that go nowhere.You can tell the director wants to explore grief, emotional isolation, and the inner walls we build. And to some extent, he does, especially thanks to the lead performances, which are the best thing here. But with the supporting characters adding little, the pacing turns uneven and the emotional weight the story aimed for gets lost along the way.Visually, it's decent. The production design creates an effective atmosphere, and there are moments when the oppressive mood comes through. But then come the scenes that try to be action or conspiratorial thriller, and it all falls apart. Brick wants to be a lot: a drama, a mystery, a social horror, a critique of fake news... but in the end, it never fully commits to any of them.The resolution doesn't help either. The "reason" behind the confinement tries to close things out with symbolic meaning, but it doesn't quite land. It feels like the journey was supposed to matter more than the answer. That's fine, but even the journey ends up feeling incomplete.It's not a disaster. There are interesting ideas, a few well-done scenes, and a mood that works in some places. But everything it could have been - intense, meaningful, unsettling - ends up as just "almost." It doesn't quite bore, but it doesn't move you either, and for a story about being trapped, that's a problem.
Reviewed by LetsReviewThat26 6 / 10

needed more humph

I liked this movie but it was not without problems. I thought the plot was intriguing enough as contained films are good, and its not to say this is bad it just needed something more. Tim and olivia live in an apartment complex, they are having troubles but they wake up one morning to see a strange black magnetic wall has fitted itself into the building and stopping them from leaving. The stakes could have been higher. There is much threat here and the wall could have been utilized more than the three points of horror we see from it. But still its acted well and the thrill are enough to keep it going.
Reviewed by hazard111 5 / 10

It's not desperate enough

Warning: Brief bright light flashing, a little goreThe trailer had me curious as it seemed thrilling but the movie didn't deliver it. The actors were overall fine nothing praise worthy. The dub isn't so bad either... but how the plot unraveled was just a let down add to that the blurring zooming in out they keep doing just made me dizzy.They could've done more with the Escape room concept if they actually created an atmosphere of suffocation but they were all barely stuck there. They didn't mention it but it just felt like only 1 day has passed? Maybe 2 days if I'm being generous. That's just not enough to create that sense of dread of "I want to get out! We're all going to die here! We have no food!" crazy moment. Now instead of a thriller of humanity going on survival mode it's just a mystery. So you're basically just watching them solve the puzzle and that's it...which isn't that good anyway because by the end it's just a sense of coincidence the right characters were there at the same time and not actual smart play on solving. I guess if you just like watching them literally just "solve" how to get out then it's a tolerable watch but overall not really something I'd recommend over other movies.
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