I just sat through this movie with 3 friends with very different tastes in movies... everyone was appalled by it. The director obviously thinks he was doing some artsy movie... you can tell by the endless playing with different tints on the visuals which turn from reddish to blueish to some of the ugliest and most disgusting overblown whites I have ever seen. The problem is that there was some things going for "The room"... first of all the music was excellent and built some atmosphere which was huge part of what kept my interest in the ridiculous plot. Second there are some interesting shots which look really good and the strange inter-cutting of flash-backs make you hope for a giant twist or surprise. You won't get any... biggest problem here is that the movie is placed in the horror drawer and has a criminally misleading cover (such planned misleading of the viewer angers me every time). The whole "room-thing" is a joke... there is nothing happening except endless shots of people slowly moving towards a strange door or a strange light. The movie is rather short yet still seems endless because dozens of sequences are stretched to a maximum hardly bearable and often turning into a kind of joke. Some of the acting is horrendous like the bad bad baaad father who is ridiculously overacted and suffers from some incredibly lame dialog like the other family members. The sequences when the daughter finds out her pregnancy seem like they wanted an Oscar but reached out for a razzie. Parts of the movie seem like comedic elements... I am still wondering if i heard right that the sons answering machine said "I am dead at the moment, please speak after the ring!" and there's a bunch of other misplaced scenes which made not just me laugh.
The basic premise of a broken family placed in a house, finding some strange new door, all phones not working and unable to get out is already lame but the atmosphere works because of the music. Its kind of like you watch the movie but realize too late that it sucks bad, then hope for a surprise to give meaning to all of this and fall flat after 80 minutes of boredom. Neither the mysterious door, nor the strange Shining-References (like the bunny-rabbit shining story from the web) make much sense to me and honestly (SPOILER AHEAD!!!) ... movies that go for the "Its all just a dream" mode to get out of a bad scripts mess should be banned for acute lameness. A bad bad movie from an director who messed up bad although he had some talented people in his crew.
The basic premise of a broken family placed in a house, finding some strange new door, all phones not working and unable to get out is already lame but the atmosphere works because of the music. Its kind of like you watch the movie but realize too late that it sucks bad, then hope for a surprise to give meaning to all of this and fall flat after 80 minutes of boredom. Neither the mysterious door, nor the strange Shining-References (like the bunny-rabbit shining story from the web) make much sense to me and honestly (SPOILER AHEAD!!!) ... movies that go for the "Its all just a dream" mode to get out of a bad scripts mess should be banned for acute lameness. A bad bad movie from an director who messed up bad although he had some talented people in his crew.