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A session of relaxation for office workers – a review of the EXPERIMENT “the OFFICE”

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Kill the boss until the boss killed you. Kill also a senior Manager and all colleagues, all staff of your office, including the cleaning lady and hairy guy who was here last night, fixing your printer. Kill them all in order to survive.

The Belko Experiment by James Gunn and Greg McLean waited a long time. The film has been to several festivals and all who saw him there, spoke with one voice – movie thing. Unfortunately, the Russian audience gets the picture with a noticeable delay compared to the release in the US, but better late than never. For the domestic distribution of the film had changed the sign from “Experiment Belko” to Experiment “the Office”, but this is the case when freedom of localizers is quite reasonable and justified. The rest – bow distributors for helping it really is bloody good (but no-nonsense) to get the film on the wide screen in our country. Again – we’ve waited this long.

And most importantly – our expectations eventually materialize. That is seriously – do everything. The trailers promised a vigorous office line of scrimmage? In the film, much more than in the promo video, and shown it more than even you could hope for. There was a suspicion that without sociopsychology the “Experiment…” will not do? Yes, there is, by and large, and all involved. How someone will behave in an extreme situation, who the first will not sustain nerves – these issues are constantly facing the viewer, whereby the voltage is maintained even when the frame nothing horrific happens. Expected black humor? He is, he is both black and bloody, and really happy, but, importantly, without slipping into parody extravaganza. When employees gather in office when background sounds of the Latin American cover of i will survive (“I will survive”), and we already know that all these people will kill each other – this creates a very special atmosphere and evokes a wry smile. The soundtrack, however, there’s generally a damn good one.

Cadres decide everything. Shots solve all. In the case of “Experiment…” the footage is primarily Greg McLean (Director, exclusive interview which we recently published) and James Gunn (writer and producer). Gunn public knows as the Creator of the blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy, but horror fans remember his Comedy of horrors “Creep”, and one of the best zombie movies (and perhaps not a standard remake) “dawn of the dead” Zack Snyder was filmed according to the script Gann. In different ways refers to the major mainstream projects James, but you can’t deny his ability to write great stories for hard and fun genre movie.

The plot of “Experiment…” is good – has the idea, and conflict, and memorable characters. It would seem that within this story, the plot of which was known in advance to all the trailers and synopsis, something to surprise the viewer hard, but Hanna and McLean managed to put the emphasis, to maintain the momentum and surprise is not so much the General concept, how many parts. We seem to understand while watching, that’s “the one that” have the rules of this game to die, but every time it happens suddenly. We laugh, showing obviously a comical character-a drug addict (and that in offices there are pictures!), the shock of the sudden transformation of some of the quiet boys in the maniac psychopath with a completely torn roofs, make you think, and how we would behave ourselves in the place of any actor – and it is obviously a poor one who think there bad?.. So that helps a lot and the fact that the local “hero” for the most part annoying as others, and we, the audience, his deliberate naiveté and desire to get out of the water (from the bloodbath, in this case!) dry.

Blood stained all around.

McLean’s previous film, “Darkness”, was an attempt to play on the subject of ghosts and the underworld, where so well in recent years is James WAN as a Director (“Astral”, “Spell”) and producer (“there goes the light…”). The attempt, however, failed – the picture is boring, not scary, predictable – even though the exotic local of evil (Aussie McLean do like exotics that much on the “Experiment…”). If you remember his earlier work, we find that Greg good bloody horror with a touch of black humor (the franchise “Wolf pit”), but within a PG-13 rating (“Darkness”) and banal stories (“the Crocodile”, 2007) Director feels as if uncomfortable. “The experiment…” let him open up in the suitable region and the style and remove the if not the best, then certainly one of the best movies in his career.

Among the performers is also worth to emphasize the most experienced, but not too “zvezdataya” Tony Goldwyn (you should remember him for playing the villain in the movie “Ghost”, the thing with demi Moore and Patrick Swayze) – it was he and not pet by James Gunn Michael Rooker got the role of the most ambiguous and interesting character in this story (Rucker, however, is also good, but rooker is ALWAYS good, even in small roles here). The role of the person who is willing to make sacrifices, which seeks to control even situations that any control obviously can not be.

One of these guys a real asshole, and the other is forced.

Thanks to the work of people like Gunn, MacLean, Goldwin, we have received not just, you know, the cinematic version flash fun 24 ways to kill your boss, and more. “Experiment…” is compared to the iconic “Royal battle” – and he is worthy of such a comparison. Here, in a large number of associations, you may wish to detect and the relative lack of pictures. Films in which a group of people have a perverted social experiments, shot a lot (just for instance – “Test”, the German “Experiment” and its Hollywood remake, a mediocre “Employer” with Malcolm McDowell…). Indeed, the work of Gunn and MacLean will be called the “new word in the genre” or even specific topics. But it’s really almost the only minus of the film.

Viewing is strongly recommended.

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