Review of Green Room (2016) by Tyler E — 18 Dec 2016
Green Room does not try to reinvent the slaughterhouse movies that inspire it. Rather, it embraces what has worked about the genre in the past: the macabre nature of the setting, the brutality, and the ensemble of characters that have to experience the insanity as it unfolds.
That said, to simply call Green Room another slaughterhouse movie is selling it short. This is an incredibly well made film, one that is paced expertly, shot beautifully, and written intelligently. Although this movie certainly embraces its B-Movie roots, there is also an incredibly intelligent filmmaker behind the relentlessness, one that manages to make the movie transcend what is usually expected from this genre.
This is a movie that is not only incredibly tense and fun, but it's also one with deeper implications about artists and how they view their work as the "end-all, be-all" of their lives. Sure, perhaps this film doesn't reinvent the genre, but it is one of the best examples of it in recent memory.
It is my favorite movie of 2016 so far.
This review of Green Room (2016) was written by Tyler E on 18 Dec 2016.
Green Room has generally received positive reviews.
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