![]() ![]() Each candidate is issued questionnaires with what seem like random IQ related questions and promised a remuneration of 250 Dollars on completion of the exercise through multiple yet escalating levels of evaluation. Answering an advertisement requiring subjects for psychometric evaluation, four individuals are shown into a large lackluster room with nothing but bolted down aluminum chairs and a table. The entire film is mostly shot in one room and as the title suggests, this is no ordinary room. ![]() And given the content and context suggested here, one thing is certain: Conspiracy theorists will lap this up like a starved orphan, and like poor Oliver, will even ask for more. ![]() If that is the case, why make a film suggesting these inhuman programs are still experimented during this day and age? Having said that, anything is possible and if it is, Liebesman has just served some really indigestible yet unbelievable food for thought. The problem here is that all this mumbo-jumbo was rumored to have occurred before the days of United Nations and Human Rights intervention. Test subjects typically endured grueling physical and mental torture and once successful could be theoretically capable of executing just about any covert mission, with the added bonus of no recollection of their deeds if they came back alive. These â"Classified-Top Secret" programs were conducted in a desperate retaliation to counter whatever monstrosities were created behind the Soviet Iron Curtain as well as Hitler's own â"Uber Soldiers". As we are given to believe very early in the film, â"Project MK Ultra" or forced mind control exercises was covertly practiced by underground US government agencies during the cold war period. Ironically, what works against him is the same plot with some unmistakable holes in the form of unanswerable questions viewers will have by the end of the film. What works for him is an interesting and intellectual plot that will initially grab your attention, loose it and then grab it again. I for one find myself stuck in the middle with no inclination towards accepting or rejecting what could have been his best film to date. While his recent attempt to re-boot the Texas chainsaw saga with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning resulted in an immediate love or hate response for the audience, his latest offering here will likewise have the same result. Given his recent history in cinema, it is safe to assume director Jonathan Liebesman has a unique panache for the macabre. ![]()
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