“The Ascent” (*1/2 out of four) was a junky futuristic sci/fi thriller about a special Ops squad named Hells Bastards (Rachel Warren, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, and others) who are sent on a mission to retrieve intel but find themselves trapped in a never-ending stairwell that forces all squadrons to revisit their past sins or die. Most viewers will note that this just a compound of ideas from other “past” movies, such as “Back To The Future” which one of the characters even cites here. Film moves fast but you’ll likely forget it even faster. Cinematographer George Burt bathes nearly every image of this in dark murky blue.