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The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Release : | 2009 |
Rating : | 6.8 |
Studio : | Bedlam Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Luke Mably Chukwudi Iwuji Jimi Mistry Nathalie Cox Pollyanna McIntosh |
Genre : | Thriller Mystery |
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Best movie ever!
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
This movie is basically a mystery until the movie finishes. It is one of those movies that got shot in one room or single set. It makes the viewer think about the exam it self along with the characters. They tried to make candidates (the ones who take the exam) different in appearance (and assumed in background) to show different way of thinking from each other.. Could it be a representation of a community and how a person can stand out!!?.. maybe.The exam has a time limit, which the characters wasted arguing about other stuff than the exam's material it self!.. The single question that needs answer was not known to everyone.. so in majority of time everyone spent it asking (what is the question?).. that what made the movie little exciting!.. was it detail oriented movie?.. yes.. was the question asked hard?.. no.It is a movie that worth the time to watch at least once.
Eight candidates which have reached the final stage of an interview for a prestigious but also very demanding firm are faced with an ultimate test in order to establish a winner. Left alone in a room, they must provide the answer to a question which doesn't seem to exist. In order to do something, they start to thoroughly analyze the situation, and even cooperate in order to find the question for which they must provide the answer.It's an unique movie who's entire plot enrolls in a single room, presenting eight completely different characters fighting to obtain a much desired job. It shows what humans are capable of when being put on the line and what they are willing to do and risk in order to obtain what they desire. It provides mystery and suspense while explaining everything in the end.It's a very good movie overall which has and presents a very good idea, although simplistic at its core, while providing a good finale. My only problem with it is the fact that such special and apparently gifted candidates had quite a rough approach regarding the problem which quite affected the course of events, contrary to my expectations, but I might be a bit subjective here.
I began watching this movie with high expectations as I love these kind of movies with few actors in a closed locations .. The beginning was promising and fast and up to the point .. No time was wasted in preparing for the story .. But as the story proceeded things got screwed .. The development of the events was not interesting at all .. I got bored of the story so quickly ..The way they were trying to discover the nature of the question and the way they tried to disqualify each others were ridiculous and boring .. And the actors were so bad that I couldn't understand where they stood from what is happening .. The way they reacted for extreme things such as the act of homicide was shallow as if they were a group of killers not ordinary people in an interview for a job!! And right before the end of the movie when you think that it can't get worse I was surprised with what considered to be the twist at the end .. Not because of the twist itself of course, but because it made me hate every second I had wasted on watching this movie .. A silly twist that didn't add nothing at the end and demonstrated how miserable the movie was .. I don't recommend that movie at all for anyone, unless you want to know how a trivial story and modest actors can meet to make you hate a category of movies you used to love before ..
Remember when you were in fourth grade and your teacher told you the riddle about traveling to St. Ives? Imagine making an entire movie about that riddle.The point of this movie is that ten good actors can effectively illustrate the ignorance of contemporary consumers of psychological thrillers.The premise is that eight job applicants have made it through a rigorous sequence of screening processes and earned themselves the opportunity to sit for a test which will presumably determine whether or not they get employed as an assistant for the CEO of a pharmaceutical company.They have 80 minutes to complete the test.They are each given a sheet of paper with "Applicant __ " printed on it, and a set of simple, verbal instructions.The sheet of paper has no other writing on it.Things start off interesting, because the token white male (who naturally is an asshole and a hypocrite) figures out some interesting things about the instructions for the exam. Then things go down hill.The allegedly outstanding candidates quickly start to flip out because they don't know what the question to the test is.The characters, who have for some reason given themselves "code names", set about breaking things-- the viewer is supposed to regard this stupid behavior as a reasonable attempt at problem solving.One of the candidates breaks one of the rules by communicating with the guard by flipping him the bird. The candidate is not thrown out of the exam due to shoddy writing.Predictably, the candidates become paranoid and resort to violence.In the end, the viewer learns that the writer of this movie believes that impatience, rash behavior, following the group, whining, and not recognizing a trick question when you see it are all qualities which pharmaceutical companies desire in an employee.The acting was great, which made the movie engrossing and I would even say it was worth watching for that reason. The premise of the whole thing being a job interview however, required a level of suspension of disbelief which is likely only possible for people who do not know what it is like to work extremely hard to achieve something such as an outstanding test score or employment at a highly competitive job.