A room, 8 individuals from different backgrounds, ethnicities and intelligence, what do they have in common? A fixation on being a finalist for a position in a high profile company. What is the question? We travel along with these individuals as they sit in a room with eight tables and chairs and a piece of paper and pencil, sacrifice the piece of paper and your disqualified, talk to the guard or screen and your out, those are the rules. What follows is a deceptive mind game into each person and the question remains the same: WHAT IS THE QUESTION?A complex movie with grit into the psyche of who and what we are, what we do in specific circumstances. Shot entirely in a cinemascope format, and directed the same. A journey unleashes the mind to determine why. I felt the movie was a little slow but the climax at then was twisted, I did have it figured out 20 minutes in though. A solid 6/10

PROS: The ending was hands down, undeniably, no ifs ands or buts the best part of the movie. Everything that a good ending needs, plus some, was seen with EXAM. The ending made everything clear, the ending made me remember the film (even if it wasn't to good), and the ending made the rest of the movie better. If you have ever seen a movie that just takes your breath away, that really takes you and shifts your whole vision of the movie upside down. It just absolutely shook me.CONS: Acting, poor. Believability, horrible. Intensity, nonexistent. I don't even know where to begin. This movie really suffered from many different sections. The whole cast wasn't bad actors, but they weren't good. That's for sure. I felt bad for them, because the script gave so little room for creativity in character development, but they still didn't take ahold of what they did have, which made the film suffer. Each person lacked that extra pop you need to be on screen. This, I felt, hurt the intensity of the film. That would probably be the worst attribute in my opinion. The movie was just simply not scary. I understand that psychological horrors come at intensity in a different way, but this movie just didn't have any period. It just felt very blah.www.chorror.com

Remember when you were in fourth grade and your teacher told you the riddle about traveling to St. Ives? Imagine making an entire movie about that riddle.The point of this movie is that ten good actors can effectively illustrate the ignorance of contemporary consumers of psychological thrillers.The premise is that eight job applicants have made it through a rigorous sequence of screening processes and earned themselves the opportunity to sit for a test which will presumably determine whether or not they get employed as an assistant for the CEO of a pharmaceutical company.They have 80 minutes to complete the test.They are each given a sheet of paper with "Applicant __ " printed on it, and a set of simple, verbal instructions.The sheet of paper has no other writing on it.Things start off interesting, because the token white male (who naturally is an asshole and a hypocrite) figures out some interesting things about the instructions for the exam. Then things go down hill.The allegedly outstanding candidates quickly start to flip out because they don't know what the question to the test is.The characters, who have for some reason given themselves "code names", set about breaking things-- the viewer is supposed to regard this stupid behavior as a reasonable attempt at problem solving.One of the candidates breaks one of the rules by communicating with the guard by flipping him the bird. The candidate is not thrown out of the exam due to shoddy writing.Predictably, the candidates become paranoid and resort to violence.In the end, the viewer learns that the writer of this movie believes that impatience, rash behavior, following the group, whining, and not recognizing a trick question when you see it are all qualities which pharmaceutical companies desire in an employee.The acting was great, which made the movie engrossing and I would even say it was worth watching for that reason. The premise of the whole thing being a job interview however, required a level of suspension of disbelief which is likely only possible for people who do not know what it is like to work extremely hard to achieve something such as an outstanding test score or employment at a highly competitive job.

this dialogue driven, problem solving, psychological mystery will have you guessing till the end...at that point some of the air is let out of the balloon but just a little. The ending doesn't really leave you with a jaw- dropping revelation, like all the great psychological thriller/mystery movies have. I mean that's kinda "the moment you've all been waiting for" for this type of film that has you dying to know what really is going on here. But i wouldn't say the ending is bad by any means, and The rest of the movie is absolutely riveting. It sucks you right in and you feel genuine emotions for the characters from hate to feeling sympathetic. The entire movie takes place in 1 room but it has as much excitement as a big budget blockbuster