All life is turned into nightmares for the residents of the Oslo Tower apartments, in a moment that explains a dangerous virus infiltrating the building. After the virus infiltrated the building, everyone appears to be in real danger and there is no escape from this that will happen as the population is kidnapped from the virus’s nickname one by one.
While the dialogue is tainted by a few panic-thriller platitudes, and it is clear first-time director Neil McEnery-West needs to work on coaxing the best from actors, this is a zippy, clean-cut work.
It's a niftily executed viral-outbreak thriller that, true to its title, makes good use of confined space to ratchet up the drama of the situation, while working hard to bypass the more obvious narrative traps it creates for itself.
Stark, brittle, disquieting and with an ending to rival The Mist for bleakness, Containment is British genre cinema to champion and one to shout about from the nearest rooftop.
