Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The beginning started great, the story seems to be actually quite good but the directing, the actors and the plot twist seem unfinished, the decisions by the actors on characterization quickly made, there's no depth, no reality. Ricardo seems great at times, but for a father who lost his children he doesn't perform a convincing role, I understand panic is sometimes withheld and shock is part of the process but we never get that "panic" feel. The mother is even less convincing, perhaps if one had played the "panic" role and the other the "nervous/supporting" role we could feel convinced by these parents going through turmoil. When the twist happens and then gets resolved there's one huge hole in which the audience can't find no logic for, this totally ruins the movie. We think perhaps the shock of the situation is what leaves the father ignoring this HUGE loophole the audience can see, but the directing, supporting actors or lead don't deliver a convincing way to forget about it. The ending comes fast, there's no moment to feel for the characters, the acting of the children is generic, as if someone told them "do this, or that" their roles have no depth and do not fit the situation they are in. Finally I can say that this is one of the worst movies I've seen.

Sebastián (Ricardo Darín) is a successful lawyer in Buenos Aires and is in the middle of an important case. He has divorced from Delia (Belén Rueda) and they have two children, Luca (Abel Dolz Doval) and Luna (Charo Dolz Doval). Delia wants to move to Spain to live with her father and wants full custody of the children, but Sebastián is reluctant. Sebastián goes to Delia's apartment on the seventh floor of an old building to take Luca and Luna to school and Delia leaves the place. The siblings ask to go down playing on the stairs while Sebastián takes the elevator. When he arrives on the lobby, he realizes that the children have vanished. Sebastián needs to be in court for an important case but he seeks them out with the janitor and his neighbor Rosales (Osvaldo Santoro), who is a police detective. He calls Delia that returns to the building and suspects of everyone until a woman calls him asking for a one hundred thousand-dollar ransom in two hours. How can the desperate Sebastián raise this amount in a short time and who might have kidnapped his children?"Séptimo" is a tense and engaging thriller with a great idea but flawed conclusion. Sebastián destroys his professional life but let his wife go with one hundred thousand dollars and no other consequence? Delia should have an accomplice but it seems that her revenge on Sebastián was carried out alone. Did she keep her children on the fourth floor alone? How could she move in and leave the building with lookouts from the police and neighbors everywhere? My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Sétimo" ("Seventh")

Here is a good movie. In fact very good movie. This is my 4th movie of Ricardo Darín. A good thrilling plot. A father "Sebastián"(Ricardo Darín) taking his children out along the lift. They enter into a playful agreement. Sebastián to let his kids take the stairs - all the way down while he himself take the lift. They bet that they will win the race. Well , here is the plot. The race starts all right but the children doesn't seem to have come down. It becomes more mysterious from here. A known environment suddenly becomes unknown. Performance of Ricardo is as usual of the highest level. To be honest , sequence following his awareness of his missing kids and this event coinciding with his client hearing - with the judge , his law firm team all waiting endlessly for him to come is all very neatly done. A nail biting - what next or now what?. And all of this unfolds one eventful morning. The director kept a good pace and also a good tight screen play. I would give a 7 plus for this. But the last finish was a complete let down for me. It was an excellent recipe made and thrown outside into a trash can. But surely - we get money's worth of thrill but end up unsatisfied and shocked more at the bland finish with everything building up so well. A good movie with an end wasted just like that is my comment. I give it 7 out of 10.

To start with, Darín is one of the best Argentinian actors nowadays, and regardless (it is true) most of the times he plays the dodgy Argentinian kind of person, he always delivers an honest and intense performance to get you into the story. I always enjoy him and watch his movies. Santoros part is very good too, makes you think about him, and how's he involved in a very believable way. The story has enough mystery to keep me wondering what was happening to a certain point. Reactions from the characters in general were believable too and the setting was good and natural. But all this until the last third. there's a break point were everything starts to fail, events have no consequences and looses a lot of realism. There's a lot of plot holes and loose ends that are important but left unresolved. I wasn't really convinced by Ruedas performance (maybe her script wasn't good...), neither the kids acting was any good.. To finish with, the resolution was a bit simple and anti-climax. I was expecting something more interesting and in the level of the beginning of the movie, a shame that the ending didn't make justice to the first half. Some good acting, fair story and photography. Writing could be better. Average movie, not the best nor from the best of Argentinian cinema. An almost 6.