Sorry, this movie sucks

Dreadfully Boring

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I guess I am not a target audience since I am not a fan of movies that get too violent. I can enjoy a thriller and horror but I prefer psychological fear instead of being grossed out by all the gore. So if you are more into this kind of movies you may like it more.I mainly watched it for the actors in it. It was interesting to see Patrick Stewart as a head of this Nazi organization. Seems very out of his usual character. He also did a good job but he wasn't much on screen to tell. Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat are the other actors I knew. It seems they didn't end up having much space to act as I know them as better actors than in this movie.The movie isn't so much about acting it is about the pressure of the situation. And it was pretty promising before all the gore started. But as I said it may be liked by somebody else.

After the first ten minutes I came close to switching it off, I couldn't see why the ratings for it were so high, but......When the band finish their performance the film comes to life, it's hard hitting, dramatic and gripping, described as an adrenaline rush, that's a good description, very edge of the seat viewing. The quality of the film also seems to flick into action at the same point, what starts off as a slow and padded beginning transforms into a slick, well acted movie. Patrick Stewart is excellent, very menacing in a subtle way, but star of the show has to be Imogen Poots, who is fantastic. The ending is hugely dramatic too, I have to ask though, why always are Staffys used, they get such a bad deal in movies, but are the best dogs!

"Green Room" is a very suspenseful movie. The premise of the movie is that a Punk Rock band that's slowly running out of money finally manages to land a gig that might keep them afloat for a while. So far so good. But what they don't know is that the gig is supposed to be held at a neo-Nazi bar. There were plenty of "red flags" that they should've noticed right from the get go. But I guess they really needed the money. So they perform their songs and as they're about to leave they witness a murder through an unfortunate turn of events. All the sudden they find themselves in a problematic situation; now that they've seen the murder they can't just be let go. For the majority of the movie the protagonists find themselves trapped in that one room; the very room where the murder took place. First against their will. Later on however as the circumstances change they stay in the room for their own protection. Things start to escalate as the owner of the bar starts to prepare for the worst case scenario. The constant tension and dread is palpable. After all the protagonists are nothing but a bunch kids (figuratively speaking. They are teenagers) trying to survive in this hostile environment. Meanwhile their captors are armed and dangerous. Which becomes very apparent as the movie progresses. This isn't their first ride at the rodeo. They have clearly done this before.

From the reviews that I saw online, it seems that this movie had gotten a lot of hype. So I decided to rent and watch it. And to be frank, it was a disappointment. The characters are one dimensional, boring and stupid. There are barely any character development whatsoever and I cannot feel any pity or care for them, and trust me, I tried. The only characters whom I'm able to tolerate is the blonde girl, and I love the dog but that's it. The plot is extremely predictable, unsurprising and stupid. I don't understand the meltdown that the group have gotten into when they saw that dead girl, I mean considering the place they're in, and all the violence that are pretty much natural in a place like that, why the fact that there is a dead body is shocking!? And why do they have to be contained like that? If the Nazis are planning to kill them, they should've just shoot them all and get rid of the bodies, you know, feed them to the dogs or burn them or something. The movie itself is not even thrilling or scary at all. I know a plenty of horror movies that uses jump scares to their advantage, yet this movie doesn't even use a single jump scare and it had completely failed to scare me. There are a plenty of people who calls this movie violent and brutal, yet most of the violence are pointless and it's not even as brutal as other horror/thriller movies. An the end of the day, this movie is a waste of time and I regret spending my precious money and 95 minutes to watch this.