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The Belko Experiment

  • 20162016
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  • 1h 29m
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John Gallagher Jr. in The Belko Experiment (2016)
In a twisted social experiment, 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
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In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system... Read allIn a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
53K
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POPULARITY
4,321
404
    • Greg McLean
    • James Gunn
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    • John Gallagher Jr.
    • Tony Goldwyn
    • Adria Arjona
    • Greg McLean
    • James Gunn
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    • John Gallagher Jr.
    • Tony Goldwyn
    • Adria Arjona
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    • 258User reviews
    • 202Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
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    John Gallagher Jr.
    John Gallagher Jr.
    • Mike Milch
    Tony Goldwyn
    Tony Goldwyn
    • Barry Norris
    Adria Arjona
    Adria Arjona
    • Leandra Florez
    John C. McGinley
    John C. McGinley
    • Wendell Dukes
    Melonie Diaz
    Melonie Diaz
    • Dany Wilkins
    Owain Yeoman
    Owain Yeoman
    • Terry Winter
    Sean Gunn
    Sean Gunn
    • Marty Espenscheid
    Brent Sexton
    Brent Sexton
    • Vince Agostino
    Josh Brener
    Josh Brener
    • Keith Mclure
    David Dastmalchian
    David Dastmalchian
    • Lonny Crane
    David Del Rio
    David Del Rio
    • Roberto Jerez
    Gregg Henry
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    • The Voice
    Michael Rooker
    Michael Rooker
    • Bud Melks
    Rusty Schwimmer
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    • Peggy Displasia
    Gail Bean
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    • Leota Hynek
    James Earl
    James Earl
    • Evan
    Abraham Benrubi
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    • Chet Valincourt
    Valentine Miele
    • Ross Reynolds
      • Greg McLean
      • James Gunn
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    • Trivia
      John Gallagher, Jr. auditioned for a role in a previous film directed by James Gunn, but wasn't right for the part. However, Gunn thought he was the best actor he'd seen in an audition, and vowed to work with Gallagher again.
    • Goofs
      The building supposedly became a giant defacto Faraday cage, but they are able to pick up a local radio station from inside the building. But nothing supports that the metal around the building is also acting as a Faraday cage. In many outside shots the of building you can see a tower on the roof with 3 Sector antennas positioned around it, this is likely a cell tower and due to the remote location likely the only one providing service to the area. With the level of expertise shown by the perpetrators it would be simple to disable this tower during the lockdown. It is also easily more probable a cell jammer or jammers could have been activated in or near the building.
    • Quotes

      The Voice: In two hours we want thirty of you dead. If thirty of you are not dead, we will end sixty of your lives ourselves. Five, four, three, two, one. Begin.

    • Connections
      Featured in FoundFlix: The Belko Experiment (2017) (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Yo Vivire (I Will Survive)
      Written by Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren (as Frederick Perren)

      Translation by Oscar Gomez

      Performed by Jose Prieto

    User reviews258

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    6/10
    A movie that's been done 100 times, but passes the time adequately.
    Eighty American workers in Bogota get locked inside their office building and an announcement over the intercom gives them half an hour to kill any two of the employees. When they don't comply, the rules are amped up, and an American Battle Royale (down to the 'collars') ensues.

    The Belko Experiment managed to accomplish the difficult feat of never being boring, not even for a minute. It takes almost no time getting going, and at any given moment it is either action packed, or taking a break from action and descending into dark humour. Both of these were well-executed, with one particularly memorable action piece (the end of round 2, so pretty), and a spattering of interesting side characters, a lot of them hilarious in either attitude or demeanor. With that, it managed to entertain throughout, making it worth seeing.

    However, where it fails is originality. The Battle Royale formula has been done time and time again, and here we get the straightest form of it, with zero deviation from the norm and zero unique perspective. Where a movie like Circle tries to infuse some kind of basic examinations of social themes, here there is no higher level to the killings. And for this, the movie never once surprises with a thought or an event. The characters are just shells of people; the bad guys are caricatures of evil, the protagonists of good. There is never ambiguity of character, in a movie where so much moral ambiguity should be present due to the situation. So from minute one you know exactly who will be a villain and who will be a hero, and the end game is obvious from the start. It's a waiting game for the movie to arrive where you know it is going, which makes it very unsatisfying once the action is over.
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    • Sep 12, 2016

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    • Release date
      • March 17, 2017 (United States)
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    • Filming locations
      • Bogotá, Colombia
    • Production companies
      • Orion Pictures
      • Troll Court Entertainment
      • The Safran Company
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    • 1 hour 29 minutes
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