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The Killing Room (2009)
 
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Director:
Jonathan
Liebesmann |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Thriller/Horror |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
The
Killing Room |
RUNNING
TIME
93
minutes |
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Producer:
Guymon Casady
Ross M. Dinerstein
Ben Forkner
Bobby Schwartz |
Screenwriter:
Gus Krieger
Ann Peacock |
Review
With a little more imaginative and
enthusiastic direction, this interesting and well-written situational
chiller could have been a small-time classic within the genre. It has
both the brains and the balls to affect both intellect and stomach, and
although the initial premise looks a little too familiar (Cube meets
Saw), both the plot development and
the underlying motivation is so interesting from a psychological point
of view that even seasoned viewers will remain seated. The acting is
fine too, Timothy Hutton looks great and seems more confident than he
has done in a long time, and Nick Cannon does ever so well with his
challenging part. For Peter Stormare and Chloë Sevigny, it's more vapid
stuff, and their scenes together are also part of the movie's problem.
These scenes - which function as the denouement of the mystery - lack
panache and energy, with the result being a weakened sense of suspense
rather than an increased. And that's unfortunate, because the finale is filled with
a fine balance of relevance and paranoia.
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