Greetings
valued Dan's Movie Report readers and lovers of very odd thriller
films. Although 'The Room' came out in 2019, the service Shudder, has
it now for streaming and I thought during these crazy times, what
else could I possibly do than watch this off the wall flick. 'The Room'
is at the core a film about dreams. A young, well relatively young,
couple buy a fixer upper home to start a new life together.
The
couple, Matt played by Kevin
Janssens and Kate played by Olga
Kurylenko are cautiously optimistic when they purchase their
new home in a lovely countryside. Once settled in, they stumble across an unusual room. This
room is a seeming gateway to endless wishes, and boundless wealth.
All is not what it seems as the couple wishes for more and more
outlandish items, including million dollars and priceless artwork,
sadly once these items leave the house, they turn to dust.
I mean
the plot concept is pretty amazing, but some of the execution is a
bit flat, I wanted to see more of the couple's lives prior to getting
in the house and some more day to day interplay. That said, I did
enjoy the acting of Kevin and Olga, both actors had to really go
through a serious amount of emotions. Anger, fear, frustration and
Olga's uncanny motherly power comes to fruition in the third act of
'The Room'. Olga straddled the line of mother and protector, while
Kevin Jame's Matt came across as a man descending into madness as the
time in the house wears on.
The
big wish, and I will say (SPOILER) is the couple wishes for the one
thing they cannot have, a child, although I refuse to spoil what
happens after they get this star/miracle baby, I will say you will
not see this coming. The plot thickens and even becomes delightfully
convoluted and confusing. Normally I would hate this, but in 'The
Room' it works. The pacing becomes frantic, rules are broken and
nothing is conventional, and Olga proves she deserves to be in these
high quality acting films not just action flicks like Bond,
Centurion, and The Courier.
I
actually watched 'The Room' a second time to see what director
Christian
Volckman wanted to do from the original Idea he had to the
collaboration of other writers. I mean there are some great ideas
here, I kind of wish the team had a bit of a higher budget for the
house, but, the film works as basically a single setting entity save
for an insane asylum of a John Doe, who apparently lived in the house
prior.
Overall
I will recommend this film especially on the Shudder streaming
service, and rate it a strong 7 out of 10! If you have Amazon Prime it is a 4.99 monthly add on. Either
that or go to https://www.shudder.com/
Watch
Dan's Movie Report for more Shudder releases in 2020!
Follow
Olga Kurylenko on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/OlyaKurylenko
For
more info on the Room check out the imdb page @
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8485364/
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