This was on my to-watch list for quite a while before I gave it a chance. Holy crap this movie is good. Not ten stars good, obviously, but man it throws some curve balls. All of the actors were competent and believable. The tension builds and builds. The ending was stereotypical but didn't detract from the film at all. Wonder how much time Patrick Stewart had to spend in makeup to play a skinhead lol.

I guess I am not a target audience since I am not a fan of movies that get too violent. I can enjoy a thriller and horror but I prefer psychological fear instead of being grossed out by all the gore. So if you are more into this kind of movies you may like it more.I mainly watched it for the actors in it. It was interesting to see Patrick Stewart as a head of this Nazi organization. Seems very out of his usual character. He also did a good job but he wasn't much on screen to tell. Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat are the other actors I knew. It seems they didn't end up having much space to act as I know them as better actors than in this movie.The movie isn't so much about acting it is about the pressure of the situation. And it was pretty promising before all the gore started. But as I said it may be liked by somebody else.

Overall quite good. However, it would have helped if the actors had spoken a little more clearly - half the time it's so slurred as to be unintelligible - and Patrick Stewart was completely mis-cast. If he thinks he can play someone menacing, especially a neo-nazi veteran - then he is sadly mistaken. His performance was pedestrian and certainly nowhere near the hard-man that was needed for the role.

'Green Room' matches the intensity and grimness of writer/director Jeremy Saulnier's breakout effort 'Blue Ruin', but lacks the soul that made that film so haunting and tragically poetic.It stars the late Anton Yelchin in another low key, naturalistic performance alongside a cast of young character actors who really sell the authenticity of this world. It's grimy and dirty and frightening, and that's even before the violent mayhem starts. The atmosphere is dripping with bad vibes and simmering with an undercurrent of violence, and this feeling is mostly thanks to a convincing cast and some tautly engineered direction. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the cast is Patrick Stewart as the neo-nazi establishment owner who coldly calculates the demise of our main characters. Once you get past the fact that it is Sir Patrick (The Sci-fi Nerd King) breaking some bad, he really is quite chilling to watch.The film has several disturbingly violent sequences that escalate with each new confrontation until a fairly scattershot climax and it mostly makes for a tense watch. However, because the characters aren't explored in any significant way it supplies us with only superficial thrills via the visceral nature of the violence depicted and the fact that we naturally prefer that the underwritten heavy metal rockers win out over the underwritten nutball Nazis who are trying to slay them. It's ultimately just a dirty indie remake of John Carpenter's 'Assault on Precinct 13', but it does a good job of living up to its heritage.