The Immaculate Room

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.

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 drove me crazy that they kept bumping into the bed or kept saying they couldn't see anything after the lights went out even though the room had the entire floor covered with lights. I mean the bed practically had underglow light effects like a car would have.

Pretty slow movie where nothing really happens..

Ok. That's the end of the review. Why the hell is the app making me come up with 600+ characters for the review. There is literally nothing left to say. I want this review to stop but no, it won't let me. It just keeps making me type more letters. Yippee, only 26 more characters to go.

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.

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.......................................................