Green Room

2016 • 95 minutes

About this movie

Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain't Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, run-down club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren't meant to see. Now trapped backstage, they must face off against the club's depraved owner, Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain't Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown.

Ratings and reviews

The only people who will die concerning this movie will be the people who die out of boredom, trying to watch it all the way through! The only thing dark about this movie is the actual contrast of the video. Trust me, it would be more entertaining to take the cash that you spend renting it, set it on fire and watch it burn! I think I would actually rather listen to punk music than have to watch this movie. If 4 people rent it then that should cover the production costs and pay whatever moron wrote it. This movie has about as much plot as a cemetery for unicorns! I won't even speculate as to why Patrick Stewart would have appeared in this, I'm just full of concern and sympathy for him; and speaking of plots, I think he just dug one for his career. This movie moves about as fast as a Chevy Volt using double D Flashlight batteries. It would appear as though this movie was conceived, written, casted, made in its entirety, signed off on and released during a single night at an ecstasy party! Hey Patrick Stewart, MAKE IT NO!

Great film premise where it dissects the nature of futility amidst trial, choices carry dire consequences, and how the protagonists' ineptitude contrasts the antagonists' calculative stoicism. Do not expect a happy ending, nor can you watch this without a prior understanding that it'll be a grim reminder that not everyone you care about will make it to survive the end of the narrative. However, if you go into the film knowing that it'll be downtrodden, relentlessly graphic in its depiction of violence, and visceral examination of how spontaneity can overcome sheer calculation as a desperate means of survival, you'll undoubtedly appreciate the overall course of its narrative structure.

I can't believe the good reviews this movie got. It's completely unrealistic; they tried to make the film so authentic but this plot would never happen in real life. It's also too dimly lit and the dialogue was nearly inaudible throughout. I had to watch it with subtitles because i couldn't understand a word Patrick Stewart said. Also, this is not a horror movie but an action/suspense movie. Blue Ruin was so much better.