Green Room Movie Review

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2016)

The main theme of this film, shared with Jeremy Saulnier's other movie, Blue Ruin, is about placing characters in high-stakes situations in which they have virtually no experience. In Green Room, this worked at times, when characters figured out solutions to their situations in interesting and entertaining ways, but didn't work in others, when characters made decisions so idiotic that they weren't relatable as fictional people, making certain characters come off as expendable. Since this didn't happen much, this film was still quite entertaining due to the tension of certain situations which, as a respect to the readers who will either mark this review as helpful or unhelpful based on whether they agree or not, I will not spoil. What weighed it way down, unfortunately, was the poor actors who seemingly stuck to one terrified or distraught facial expression and stuck to it for one or two scenes of tension. When the scenes had lower stakes, however, the film became dreadfully boring as the characters took turns saying lines in a very casual way. This could have been improved upon immensely by simply having the actors overlap each others' lines of dialogue. Therefore, Green Room had much more positives than Saulnier's last film, but still an abundant amount of issues.