Tower Block (James Nunn & Ronnie Thompson, 2012)

The notion of the high-rise block as a dystopian environment has become something of a meme of late, not just within science fiction, and Tower Block gamely tries to convince that its scenario is altogether feasible in the English suburban wasteland as an anonymous sniper starts picking off the residents of one block for an unknown reason. The characters are the usual mix of archetypes, with no particular priority given to any of them, which at least makes guessing who'll go next halfway unpredictable, and that may be the best you can expect of a model of low-budget thriller which scores low on concept originality, though reasonably well on suspense execution.

4/10