The Immaculate Room

'The Immaculate Room' is the type of film that makes me worry about which other films I would really enjoy that I haven't watched because of a low IMDb score. 4.3/10 is criminally low for a film like this, in my opinion. Is it just young people upset that nothing has blown up in the first 40 minutes of the film, switching it off and giving it a 1/10? Or are people actually finding this offensively bad and I've just missed something? I'm not entirely sure. All I know is I had a great time with it.

To be fair this is exactly my type of film. I love single-room thrillers where the only thing the film has to fall back on is the strength of its characters. Putting them in a psychological experiment setting is just the icing on the cake. I loved the arc they found themselves on too, how when they first arrive they think it is going to be a piece of cake, then the slowly realise just how long 50 days is. The "treats" the film throws into the mix to spice things up were excellent as well.

I can understand this film not being for everyone. But if don't need a film to have Marvel-level budget and explosions and CGI everywhere you look then you may just have a really good time with this one. If you do then probably stay away. 8/10.

A couple are sent to "The Immaculate Room" where if you spend 50 days in a room where there is mostly nothing that you win 5 million dollars. It was quite intriguing that the movie was shot in only one room and Mikey and Kate are questioning their own sanity while spent locked up by themselves as days go on with surprises that the room gives them. It is, at best, a decent film.

It's hard to imagine a more obviously COVID-era movie, made in strict isolation with a small handful of actors, some of whom never even meet each other and talk only to a camera in another room.

On one level it's admirable that they tried to keep on making movies in such an incredibly challenging time, but it already feels dated and claustrophobic and it's just obvious that it exists only for the reason of producing content during a pandemic.

There is practically nothing that happens in it that comes as any kind of surprise, and there's no original, meaningful or particularly convincing moments that occur at any point.

To be fair, there's nothing glaringly BAD about it, either, just the perpetually nagging feeling that it wouldn't exist at all if not for some head office instruction to continue pumping out streaming content at all costs when the barrel is otherwise scraped dry.

Mikey Walsh (Emile Hirsch) and Kate Frith (Kate Bosworth) are a troubled couple with a chance to win $5 million. They have stay in an all-white room for 50 days to win that money. It's called "The Immaculate Room". Simone (Ashley Greene) is an actress sent into the room as one of Mikey's "treats".

This is a high-concept indie with some recognizable faces. The concept may be edgier when reality-TV was in its infancy. In the year 2022, this movie is barely a blip in the conversation. It wouldn't make for great TV and this is a rather slow movie. The tension is never that high despite all the manufactured drama. I do wonder if the writer comes up with the concept first and write around it.

When one places 2 actors in 1 room and there is nothing else but a white room, then THE ACTING becomes paramount.

The bad; the problem with this movie is that we get to see 2 decent actors, who cant elevate this movie though to a higher level. I really do like both actors, but they aint Oscar winning performers.

More bad: the direction isnt gripping. It's missing spark and punch. Part due to the story being dull and predictable, part due to the direction itself.

Nice idea, mediocre execution.