The Immaculate Room

The Immaculate Room, is as the synopsis states...a movie where you spend 50 days in a white room, and by completing this you win $5 million.

It's as described on the tin. Plot wise, it seems like its going to be like other similar titles such as Phonebooth, The Circle, The Platform, Cube, etc....but this movie really goes nowhere. There is no tension. And while I really like the main actors, its hard to suspend your disbelief that people would really act this way and be so self destructive when theyre constantly reminding themselves its $5m on the line.

Really theres quite a lot of stimulation. Theres actually 2 rooms. Plenty of space to be active and move about. The lights are dimmed every night (not constantly on and over stimulating), and there are various treats and such that add stimulation to the time, so really its hard to believe that people cant do 50 days.

There's no twist or pay off for the little bit of tension in the movie either. The movie really goes nowhere so can't really recommend it.

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.

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.

The Immaculate Room feels like a missed opportunity. It has an interesting idea and starts off well enough but loses it's way badly towards the end. Emile Hirsch (who is seemingly incapable of a bad performance) and Kate Bosworth (may be the strongest i've seen her) give great performances and it was nice to see M. Emmet Walsh in one scene. The concept of the movie is definitely better than the execution and the directing is rather poor at times, most notably in the ending which is rushed and is really a letdown after what's gone on before. Shame.......................................................