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Iron_fist

Creeping suspense with lots of gory scenes.great idea with the plot having a punk rock band getting unwillingly involved in a crime.Anton Yelchin will be missed.R.I.P.
7 years 8 months ago
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Tiago Costa

4,5 /5

This is the film Eli Roth wishes he could make.

I'm convinced this shit really happened and I was watching real footage. I've said movies have felt real before, but my word this was REAL!

If ya'll thought Furiosa and Rey were bad ass ladies, wait until you see Amber (Imogen Poots)...holy guacamole.

Dr. Xavier trades in his wheelchair for a gang of psychotic neo nazis. Patrick Stewart plays the ultimate puppet master. The man is terrifying. He's cold, menacing, and sinister.

This movie isn't just violent and gory for the sake of being violent and gory.. (cough*ELIROTH*cough). The violence comes from a place of plot and character, there's a purpose for it.

Jeremy Saulnier knows how to handle tone and atmosphere. Even though I'm one of the only people on Earth who didn't care for Blue Ruin; I cannot deny the tone and atmosphere the movie created. Green Room's tone and atmosphere is done to absolute perfection.

All in all Green Room is an excellent horror/thriller film that is tension filled and will have you clenching your fists in fear throughout the run-time.
7 years 8 months ago
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lachyas

Good thing this was only 90 minutes, I don't think I could have held my breath much longer.
7 years 9 months ago
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Siskoid

Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin was a great subversion of the thriller genre, and his new film, Green Room, follows a similar template. Basically, Saulnier plays chess against himself. He asks himself what he would do in his characters' situation, works out what would actually happen (not "movie happen"), then takes the place of the opponent and does the same, rinse, repeat. What you get is a thriller with a recognizable premise, but not a formulaic plot, and no way to know where it's really heading. In Green Room, a punk band is forced to play for a crowd of White Supremacists, sees something it shouldn't have and gets locked in the compound's green room. As with Blue Ruin, the cinematography is lush and artistic, and you'll find hidden layers of motifs and meanings in the script. Plus, this time Saulnier's got a hold of more recognizable actors, including Patrick freaking Stewart. Blue Ruin was more of a revelation, but I'm content to follow this writer-director to his next projects until he exhausts his ideas for the genre.
7 years 10 months ago
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dippygirl78

I don't usually like this kind of film as I think they are gore for gore sake but this film had me pleasantly surprised.
Gore has been replaced with actual psychological tension and I honestly didn't know how it would end.
Bittersweet for me to see Anton Yelchin being superb in his role, my heart aches to think we have lost such a talented actor.
7 years 3 months ago
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nicolekidman

The most suspenseful film in my recent memory. Very good!
7 years 1 month ago
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Facundo Reyes

I went once to a polish punk gig, but hell right if I say I had much fear in my guts watching this.
7 years 8 months ago
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royalspikey77

Wow, this was a proper thriller! Excellent film which refuses to follow tropes or cliché and delivers shocks aplenty - very good indeed
5 years 11 months ago
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ucuruju

very disappointing
6 years 8 months ago
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Retro Architect

An enjoyable film. However, if you are looking for something like Blue Ruin, you aren't going to get it here.

Where Blue Ruin focused heavily on its thematic and subtextual elements, Green Room is definitely about tone and the emotion it evokes in its audience. The violence is brutal, but not gratuitous, the tension is thick, and it's a great example of horror done right.

My problem was that I was expecting a film as complex as Blue Ruin. I simply did not get that. So I warn future viewers to avoid that expectation while going into the film. You'll definitely like it more.

8/10
7 years 3 months ago
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Jordan95

Considering I watched Blue Ruin just recently and my opinion towards it was pretty positive and the acclaim this film has received, my expectations were very high, and I usually try to keep them meassured to avoid any possible disappointments. And although I didn't find Green Room to be a masterpiece, it's still a very good film, although slightly inferior to Saulnier's previous film. The first reason for this is that Blue Ruin 's story carried more thought-provoking implications than the increasingly savage fight for survival that Green Room ultimately becomes, and unlike the subtle and well-constructed characterization of Dwight Evans in that film, the characters here aren't particularly interesting, with the exception of Patrick Stewart's main villain, Darcy.

Stewart gives a very effective and understated performance, although it's a shame that Saulnier doesn't explore his character further. Rather intelligently, he uses his trademark mellow voice with opposite effect, providing Darcy with a mumbling, soft spoken tone that ultimately makes every methodical order he provides throughout the film to sound extremely sinister.

Much has been spoken about the film's use of graphic violence, and Saulnier definitely maintains the same fatalistic atmosphere carried over from Blue Ruin as well as its sudden bursts of violence. There are two particular moments so unbelievably graphic they're impossible to forget soon enough. Another aspect I like is how Saulnier incorporates a lot of material into a 95 minutes film, despite the fact that this and Blue Ruin both suffer from pacing problems in their second act. Saulnier makes expert use of Chekov's Gun throughout the film in a way that feels organic and at the same meticulously planned.
7 years 9 months ago
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fonz

Tight, suspenseful coming of age story with more violence than a Tarantino film
7 years 11 months ago
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americanadian25

A bold, daring, and risky near-masterpiece. Green Room is frequently relentless and by no means an easy watch, but for those who can handle it this is a must-see!
6 years 6 months ago
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samoan

Wow,

Great Movie, tense, pulls no punches and fantastically acted by the entire Ensemble. Patrick Stewart is terrifying and amazing in his role! Highly Recommended!!! One of the Best I have seen this year.
7 years 5 months ago
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ikkegoemikke

"Things have gone south, no doubt. But you know if you don't hand over that gun, it won't end well."

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The advantage of watching a movie without any knowledge or awareness of what it's about initially, is that sometimes you can be pleasantly surprised. And that's what "Green Room" did. It surprised me. Either way, I thought it was already interesting because it was about the members of an obscure punk band called "The Ain't Rights". They travel across the U.S in a shabby looking Minivan, going from gig to gig. It's not exactly the comfortable life as that of a successful, richly paid rock-band. On the contrary. They look like undernourished, sleazy-looking bohemians. They don't even have enough money to buy fuel, so they can move on. I admit it. I envied this group of carefree teenagers whose favorite pastime is to produce raw, anarchic music. Spontaneously memories of such a rebellious life in a distant past started to flash through my mind. Yep, I was a little biased from the start.

When Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Alia Shawkat), Reece (Joe Cole) and Tiger (Callum Turner) decide to accept one more gig, so they can earn some money, they didn't realize they would end up in a hornet's nest. The location where they have to perform is situated somewhere in a secluded forest with some bleak-looking shacks standing around. It appears to be a sort of camp for the local skinheads. After their concert, which they began with a passionate tribute to the Dead Kennedys by playing one of their classics "Nazi Punks F*ck Off", they are witnesses of a bloody crime. Somewhat later you see them barricading themselves in their dressing room, trying to negotiate with Darcy (Patrick Stewart) for a safe passage. Darcy seems to be the man who's running the place. As a result, a brutal fight starts with the elite troops of the skinheads (fearless gang members with red laces) who use all kinds of resources.

At first, I was expecting some sort of documentary-like film about the punk scene. However, when it slowly changed into a slasher and the first bloody confrontations was a fact, my enthusiasm was awakened. What's presented here, is pure aggression in its most explicit form. You'll get fury and brutality of an unprecedented nature. The ruthlessness with which the neo-Nazis try to eliminate the band, is fairly confrontational. Nothing is shown in veiled form. Violence hits you unmercifully like a sledgehammer. But not only the violence is explicit. Also the intensity and the rising tension in those claustrophobic rooms is at times unbearable. The overall setting in which the story takes place contributes to this for most part. Those dark corridors and dingy rooms. And the fact that both parties have no idea how to resolve the situation, just makes it even more interesting.

Biggest surprise for me was seeing Patrick Stewart as the charismatic leader of this subversive gang. He's better known as the more reserved and dutiful Captain Jean-Luc Picard. It felt a little weird to see him parading around as a kind of xenophobe who gives cold-blooded murderous orders to these far-right sympathizers. Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots tried to fight back in a fearsome manner. Both of them appeared already together in "Fright Night". But I'll always remember Yelchin as "Odd Thomas". He managed to survive in "Green Room". In real life however, he ran out of luck. His Jeep ,which was parked on a hill, struck him, because he left it in neutral. Well, life sucks!

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7 years 7 months ago

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