This film is about the workers at a corporation called Belko, located in Bogota, Colombia, who get trapped into a messed up social experiment (thus the title). Little did they know that they will have to be a part of a twisted killing game that is controlled by an unknown voice from the intercom.
This film was very odd. It used technical aspects very intensely but the usage of it was awfully ridiculous, especially the music chosen for certain parts of the film. I am sure this is a kind of thing that one would either love it or hate it, but in this case, I hated it. The music chosen for certain scenes, almost made this film seem as if it were a joke, and it definitely took away from the seriousness and the horror, unless that was what the director wanted…There was one time where it was totally okay to use. This scene took place during the second round of killing. In this scene, Leandra is in shock, and there is simply nothing but Latin music playing in the background and all the other noise is blocked out, and there is a panning shot of all of the violence happening around Leandra, while showing her reaction and every little expression that forms while watching the graphic nonsense around her. At that time, it was appropriate and a unique way to set the scene. But a time that I thought was inappropriate was when the killing game gets very competitive and its everyone for themselves in order to survive, thus more violence, guts, and gore. Barry, the bad guy, is on this killing spree, and during this there is loud, opera playing and it completely takes away from the saddening, hard to watch, mood. In fact, the audience who could barely swallow their food, were laughing out loud simply because of the music. One thing this film did successfully was it’s smash cuts. The only problem was that every other transition was a smash cut and it was pretty annoying. This film was awful. The plot was great and there could’ve been so much potential, and I had expected a lot from it, but in the end, it was a disappointment. The two biggest flaws, other than the bad music choice and the annoying transitions, was the fact that there was no closure, too many f bombs, and the character the audience was rooting for the whole time gets killed off. Never in the entire film do they mention what the experiment was about, there was no point. The ending felt like the filmmakers were telling the audience the following,”joke’s on you, sorry-not-sorry for wasting your time lol.” The f bombs were way too much and unnecessary and it was getting obnoxious. And then, Dany, the girl everyone was rooting for, who literally does everything to save herself, (she literally does parkour), ENDS UP DYING. At that point I was like is this even worth watching anymore? But at the same time, it made me excited for the end to see what happens because obviously the director tricked us. Instead, the movie has no point whatsoever, besides the fact that the whole chips-in-people thing is real and that this could possibly happen. Don’t watch it. (Also this was gross and gory and this movie gave me Final Destination vibes throughout it).
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