the audience applauded

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

'The Killing Room' is basically my favourite kind of movie. A psychological thriller with elements of mystery and not lacking in violence. So for me to not have a very good time watching a movie like this indicates it wasn't very well made. My biggest problem with this one was that the intrigue that should have been there was lacking. There were fun situations that arose like characters having to choose random numbers between 1-33 and get closest to a select number or else be killed, yet it was then barely touched on. The movie spent too much time with the characters talking about pointless things and not enough talking about the important and interesting things.The sound-mixing in this film was also a real problem. One character in particular (or should I say the actor that portrays that character) had an incredibly hard to understand tone. Every line he spoke was whispered and muffled and basically inaudible. Other actors had the same problem at different stages too.There was a fun set-up for 'The Killing Room' that just never really reached its full potential for my liking. Done correctly this could have been something special. As it stands though it was almost completely forgettable.

Sorry but I use headphones and pretty much any movie like this one is impossible to watch.The Actors whisper their lines as quiet as possible and then screaming blaring sound effects.So if you want to watch this movie with headphones, you have to keep your finger on the volume and crank it from 25% to 100% back to 25% back to 100%. Stop, rewind crank the volume and hear what they said. Crank it back down to 25% because your eardrums are being blown.After having to rip the headphones off three or four times because of it going from actors who are whispering to extremely loud sound effects I just gave up. Screw this movie.

This is a pretty decent movie and is based on a lot of compelling psychological research. It is basically a sobering remake of the Manchurian Candidate.I watched this on My Rabbit TV download, and for the most part, the majority of movies on Rabbit TV are average, save for the documentaries. This movie caught my eye and when you research the backgrounds of some of the most recent spree shooters, Hassan (Fort Hood), Jared Loughner and The Batman Shooter in Colorado, it's not difficult to come away with a point of view that, "yes...this type of stuff is going on". I believe that if you don't consider that, you might as well just keep watching Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.The sound editing is for crap, which is really a shame. Otherwise, I would have given this film a higher rating. It's worth watching, if you have an open mind and you've "crawled down the rabbit hole" a few times.

**SPOILERS** Totally off the wall and utterly ridicules movie involving this super secret MK-Ultra like mind controlled project in finding out,through a battery of inane and silly questions, who among us, the American people, is best qualified to be a future patriotic suicide bomber for their country. The four persons-Paul Brodie Crawford Haines Tony Mazzolla & Kerry Isalano-who answered the newspaper add and were accepted to participate in this project have no idea what they've got themselves into!The project is run by this self-absorbed control freak Dr. Phillips who has a new assistant that he's breaking in Emily Reilly who like those being tested has no idea just how crazy her boss is. Slowly but surly Emily realizes that Phillips' hair brained scheme in making normal Americans into crazed and unfeeling, to themselves as well as their potential victims, suicide bombers is as insane as he is but by then it's too late for her to back out! Locked in a room like rats in a cage the four are subjected to extreme mental as well as physical torture by Phillips & Co. that leads three of them to end up dead by the time the movie is over. Some of the idiotic things that their put through is answering and getting the answer right to the most absurd questions, with their lives literally hanging on the line in having the right answer! Questions like as an example in who was the New York Giant's third base coach when Bobby Thompson hit "The Shot Heard Round the World" off Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca!***SPOILERS**** The lucky or unlucky person of the quartet who ended up surviving in being qualified to be a future suicide bomber only qualification was that he was ready to blow his brains out and end it all. But that was not based on any patriotic duty,in willing to die as well as kill for his country, or any high minded cause on his part! But only because that person was pushed over the edge by Dr.Phillips' crazy experiments that were conducted on him! In the end we see the winning contestant of this experiment crazily running around in the secret underground military facility with the men in the white suits and butterfly nets not far behind him!