"Insanely brutal, exhaustingly nasty: Absolutely Excellent!"

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2016)

I first watched "Blue Ruin"(Jeremy Saulnier's second feature ) when it was released and I was blown away. After being immersed in such a movie, I first for wind of"Green Room" when it was being written and I waited a very long time until it was to be finally released. Now I knew this would be something else so I only allowed myself to see one 50 second trailer and nothing else . It was crucial that I go into this film with little expectations and I must say I was so happy! Green Room is just as nasty and grisly as you think it is. It follows a young punk rock group wind up fighting for there life in a building surrounded by vivacious Neo-Nazis. The leader of which is played by the chilling Patrick Stewart. He is genuinely chilling as he demonstrates complete control over the brutal attacks led against our protagonists. Malcolm Blaire returns from Blue Ruin to play Stewart's right hand man, once again brilliantly brought to life in the most unusual of ways. Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots, among others , lead as our protagonists as they spend all there time during the movie fighting for their life and all do an Excellent job. But the two things that really caught my attention was the Atmosphere and the violence. The films moves in twists and turns so as you can never quite guess what is going to happen next, leading for a very intense and interesting watch. But the most polarising factor to this is the violence. I have seen a lot of brutal films and I would consider myself fairly hardened moviegoer but the very first act of violence is so shocking and so ruthless that I squirmed and gasped in my seat. And the film gets progressively more brutal as it goes on. The realism and unpredictability of such violence gives it the film a very disturbing edge, undercut with extremely dark humour, pulsing through the films black sarcastic heart. After seeing this year's excellent "The Witch " I am very happy with how A24 studios are distributing their movies and I look forward to seeing many more in the future. Green Room is intelligent, very intense, insanely violent(seriously sensitive viewers be warned), darkly humouress and very well acted, written and directed. I can't wait to watch it again!