Green Room (2016)

Really Surprised!

Great Film overall

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

What an awful film. It was pointless, hard to get into & a waste of time. I'm so unhappy!!

Green Room is a murder thriller that dances closer to Slayer than, say, Rob Zombie. The scenes are colorfully designed for such a brutal subject, and holds some interesting blocking despite the small environment. The acting is serviceable all around and features a solid effort from Anton Yelchin, whose scenes opposite the antagonist played by Sir Patrick Stewart are worth the price of admission. While ending may be too quick for some, the ride is undeniably exhilarating.

Overall quite good. However, it would have helped if the actors had spoken a little more clearly - half the time it's so slurred as to be unintelligible - and Patrick Stewart was completely mis-cast. If he thinks he can play someone menacing, especially a neo-nazi veteran - then he is sadly mistaken. His performance was pedestrian and certainly nowhere near the hard-man that was needed for the role.

"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.