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The Killing Room
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Release : | 2009 |
Rating : | 5.6 |
Studio : | Management 360, |
Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Nick Cannon Timothy Hutton Shea Whigham Chloë Sevigny Peter Stormare |
Genre : | Drama Thriller |
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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Decided to watch because of Chloe Sevingy and the good reviews on here, but I just finished watching and well i am quite disappointed. I didn't find it psychologically thrilling, suspenseful or original at all.I kept waiting for something to happen, some revelation or surprise, but nope.Had the potential to be really good if they took it all the way but i feel like they only took it half- way, if that, perhaps i was expecting more brutality, or something, not that what happened wouldn't be horrible for the lab rats, but eh. I find the idea interesting but, i feel cheated out an hour and a half. I would say don't bother watching,
It's the most awful movie I've ever seen, and it has no excuse for this. Gratuitous murders is not something you'll ever see in a movie. Even accidental killings, or somebody trying to escape from a dire situation is excusable, and up to a certain extent acceptable. The single excuse tried by the producers was: "At this moment our enemies have somebody like me and like you doing the same thing right now...". This is very untrue, bringing only prejudice to the US image. First, they don't need to kill random guys only to select a potential human bomb. It's old public information that the terrorists are paying some large amount of money to the human bombs' very poor families, and the human bombs are very ill people in the last stage with cancer, AIDS or leukemia. Thus, the terrorists probably have more requests from the ill & poor people that they can handle: they don't need to kill randomly to select potential human bombs... daaah... It's a stupid, childish idea that only translates into most gratuitous murders seen on the screen. You have 1 from me, just because there is no 0.
**SPOILERS** Totally off the wall and utterly ridicules movie involving this super secret MK-Ultra like mind controlled project in finding out,through a battery of inane and silly questions, who among us, the American people, is best qualified to be a future patriotic suicide bomber for their country. The four persons-Paul Brodie Crawford Haines Tony Mazzolla & Kerry Isalano-who answered the newspaper add and were accepted to participate in this project have no idea what they've got themselves into!The project is run by this self-absorbed control freak Dr. Phillips who has a new assistant that he's breaking in Emily Reilly who like those being tested has no idea just how crazy her boss is. Slowly but surly Emily realizes that Phillips' hair brained scheme in making normal Americans into crazed and unfeeling, to themselves as well as their potential victims, suicide bombers is as insane as he is but by then it's too late for her to back out! Locked in a room like rats in a cage the four are subjected to extreme mental as well as physical torture by Phillips & Co. that leads three of them to end up dead by the time the movie is over. Some of the idiotic things that their put through is answering and getting the answer right to the most absurd questions, with their lives literally hanging on the line in having the right answer! Questions like as an example in who was the New York Giant's third base coach when Bobby Thompson hit "The Shot Heard Round the World" off Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca!***SPOILERS**** The lucky or unlucky person of the quartet who ended up surviving in being qualified to be a future suicide bomber only qualification was that he was ready to blow his brains out and end it all. But that was not based on any patriotic duty,in willing to die as well as kill for his country, or any high minded cause on his part! But only because that person was pushed over the edge by Dr.Phillips' crazy experiments that were conducted on him! In the end we see the winning contestant of this experiment crazily running around in the secret underground military facility with the men in the white suits and butterfly nets not far behind him!
Watching "The Killing Room" is sort of a frustrating experience, because there seems to be a missed opportunity behind every corner. You just know there's a good movie in there somewhere, at times even several good movies, but whatever great material is buried in the mix just can't find a way to get to the surface. For instance: this film really had a fighting chance to be a dark, gripping, claustrophobic masterpiece. The four characters in the titular room are all well-written and competently acted (even by the surprisingly good Nick Cannon), their disputes are believable, their mysteries are interesting enough, but whatever atmosphere their scenes create is completely neutralised by the ridiculous number of scenes set outside the room. These are just so bland, so needlessly explanatory, one tends to wonder why they're even there. Why not just set the entire movie in just that one room, would have been way more effective and mysterious. "The Killing Room" is like this compelling magical illusion that the magician starts explaining while he's still performing it. It's not like this suddenly makes the illusion any less great, but it doesn't matter, it sucks out all the fun anyway. Furthermore, the twist ending is just kinda silly, if not just moronic. It's a thing you don't see coming, but when it does come it's still pretty "meh". This movie didn't work for me at all.