What a waste. You know there's a long list of things that could define this movie as "low quality", but none of them would have mattered if they hadn't screwed up the ending. The story was pretty cool seeing as how I'm really into the whole "people mysteriously stuck in a room together and gotta find a way out before they die" type of genre. Seriously, I would have been willing to overlook all the negative aspects of this film and give it a much higher rating if it wasn't for the ending. I won't spoil the ending by telling you the details, but I will say this. The way they ended the movie pretty much negates the purpose of the whole movie. I mean seriously, there was absolutely no point in making this movie in the first place if you are gonna throw it in the trash with an ending that makes the rest of the film completely worthless. There is now only 1 way for this film to redeem itself. They need to make a sequel that explains more of whats going on and also give a character a chance to prove that the system that is responsible for all this is not invincible. If they don't do that, then this film will go down in history as a "do not watch under any circumstance" type of movie.

I'm not gonna say much. My title says it all. It has the idea of the old Kafkaesque scenario: the closed room, no basic information on the characters, no one knows how they got there, no one knows how to get out, classic sudden paranoia and a bit (not much) of claustrophobia. However, is not nearly as fun as other movies with the same concept like: Saw, Cube, Fermat's Room, Exam, etc. Poor acting, awful sound editing (you can barely hear what they are saying), the gore resembles old corny shootout movies and worst of all: The game is not even a bit interesting, no puzzles, no nothing. Thanks for attempting to make more of my favorite movie style, but it didn't turn out well. Just one thing, though: For starters, you shouldn't spoil the end of the movie in the cover picture. That's plain stupid.

A group of fourteen strangers wearing electronic necklaces are locked in a large room without any previous explanation. Sooner they are informed by a man in a monitor that they are participating of a deadly game, where the prize of the winner would be his or her own life, but they should follow certain rules to stay alive. Further, the man tells that there is one rapist, one murdered and one pedophile among them. Under the leadership of Lee (Michael McLafferty), the contestants try to resolve their own suspicions to survive.After the original 1997 "Cube", there are many rip-offs of strangers locked in an environment participating of a sick game, like for example the franchise "Saw"; or "House of 9" or the 2006 "Unknown"; therefore, "Breathing Room" is unoriginal. Unfortunately "Breathing Room" is not even a "good rip-off" because the story is boring and annoying in some moments; and the unexplained conclusion of the scientific experiment the team was submitted is pointless and disappointing. Who are the scientists? What is the objective of the sadistic experiment? Why those persons have been selected to participate? The viewer has no answer for these simple questions; therefore the story and the screenplay absolutely fail. In the awesome 2001 "Das Experiment", there is a previous explanation for teaming-up the guinea pigs. However the acting is great and the actors and actresses are able to transmit their claustrophobic tension and pain to the viewers. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "O Quarto do Inferno" ("The Hell's Room")

I am not a big fan of horror movies, and nasty examples like "Breathing Room" are the main cause for it. For a non-magical horror movie to entertain me, it must, above everything else, have one thing: an intelligent and satisfying end. I don't say that the good guys have to win, but at least the movie should end in a fashion that shows me, that all the crimes committed were not only possible, but also have the bad guys a working plan on how to get away with all of their crimes, and that is something I completely miss in this movie. Following are my main points of criticism:[1] As I understood it, all the murders were committed while the white light was out and a soft red light was on (with the exception of the three to five seconds of the actual murders, during which it was pitch black, making it impossible to see anything not only for the victim, but also for the killer). That should not keep anybody from seeing what was done and who executed the deed, I mean, she would have to move towards her victim and be panting afterwards, if she really did run so fast (and often). The filmmakers tried to hide this fact behind a lot of camera-jiggling and -wobbling, which should imply that nobody saw clearly, but I found it plainly ridiculous.[2] What was her (and her cronies) motive? What did they gain from this carnage? This topic is never even touched once.[3] How did the killers meet? I refuse to believe that you just "find" a bunch of people who are willing to abduct and butcher completely innocent people by the dozen, or at least help the actual killer to do so.[4] How did they plan on disposing of the enormous amount of bodies?Apart from that, the acting was mostly average, and thus far from credible for an impossible situation like this.I gave this movie 1 star, because I really regard it as a shameful waste of my time. Don't believe me? Go waste 90 minutes of your own time.