It's well done, but what does it accomplish?

Rating: 7/10 (14 April 2020)

Here's the thing, 'The Room' is already a glorious, ridiculous movie that exists and succeeds at being hysterically funny (despite its best efforts). You don't need any backstory to understand how it happened or what makes it funny. I'm not convinced this biopic about its development actually sheds any meaningful insight into its creation, and as a comedy it actually isn't as funny as its source material.
It is entertaining, I just don't think it adds much more to the mythology than the titular book by Greg Sestero, that being said it's pretty fun to experience the bizarre unknowable Tommy Wiseau first-hand the way Sestero did. Maybe if I hadn't seen these actors work together in so many ridiculous comedies I could have engaged more with the characters and focused less on their mediocre performances: a movie like this requires a minimum level of believability that just wasn't there for me. There was clearly a tug-of-war between the focus on comedic elements and the grounded realism that was required to sell this as a true story.
I'm not sure how a story like this could be done as a biopic. It would've worked better as a documentary with interviews from the cast. Instead it feels like a strangely bland comedy about two talentless "actors" trying to make a passion-project.