Subgenre: Extreme | Gore
Underlying Element: survival
Director: Greg McLean
Synopsis:
This movie is about 80 employees suddenly locked up in their office building and forced to kill each other for survival.
Analysis:
The Belko Experiment (2016) is an enjoyable movie to watch if you like Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, where the characters randomly kill each other. The chaos gets you at the edge of your seat, but there are funny parts where office departments start battling it out, making alliances, and betting on who's better.
The setting in this movie is the scariest part. Imagine this happening to your own company while you're at work. Will your department survive? Do you have the best weapon at your desk?
Anxiety aside, there are some familiar faces among the 80 employees in this movie. Tension rises as viewers think their favorite characters will survive, only to see them brutally murdered in the most unexpected way. Because of these many characters, there is no room for character buildup. It makes it hard to get attached to anyone. You just watch them die, then proceed to the next available character. You don’t even get to sympathize with any of them.
Another sad part of this movie is that there is not much information given about what the Belko Experiment is all about. It's just pure office-based violence with overflowing blood and guts. There is no explanation for why they were doing it, and the ending definitely calls for a sequel.
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