While 'High Rise' articulates its thoughts regarding class structure, control, and savagery with ease amidst particularly detailed sets, wonderful performances, and plenty of gorgeous frames the narrative is regrettably tedious and disengaging, due in large part to an overindulgence of montages and fixation on humor. The outcome is a frustrating severance from a plot that is at its strongest during the few scenes in which it invests wholly into the dark aspects of the remote Armageddon. The usual suspect of needlessly excessive comedy is partially to blame, but not more so than a superfluous use of montages, which seem more concerned with putting 'High Rise' into art-house discussions than engaging us into subject matter we yearn to invest into from a more fathomable perspective.