I'm uncertain how Green Room achieved the acclaim it's generated over the decade or so since its release. While the performances are solid from its young cast, there's just not enough to chew on to make this film much more than a pulpy meat grinder.
We have a scrappy punk band who establish themselves as resourceful early on, siphoning gas from cars to keep their tour bus running, and also desperate, taking on a gig at a known Nazi establishment (hardly engendering sympathy for them in the early stages.) They witness a crime and subsequently spend the next hour and a half of runtime attempting to fight their way out of captivity.
Green Room offers us nothing new here, and while it develops well and holds its tense moments, there's some predictability in the way it offs an array of characters, slasher-style, and a variety of baffling and unnecessary twists muddle what could've been a more grounded plot.
Overall worth a watch on a night you've got nothing else to do, but ultimately a forgettable installment to the genre.
We have a scrappy punk band who establish themselves as resourceful early on, siphoning gas from cars to keep their tour bus running, and also desperate, taking on a gig at a known Nazi establishment (hardly engendering sympathy for them in the early stages.) They witness a crime and subsequently spend the next hour and a half of runtime attempting to fight their way out of captivity.
Green Room offers us nothing new here, and while it develops well and holds its tense moments, there's some predictability in the way it offs an array of characters, slasher-style, and a variety of baffling and unnecessary twists muddle what could've been a more grounded plot.
Overall worth a watch on a night you've got nothing else to do, but ultimately a forgettable installment to the genre.
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