The filmmakers have us hooked with a terrific mystery and the challenge of a good puzzle.
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11/11/09
Fermat's Room (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:17
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: This stylish yet disappointingly predictable Spanish thriller is never as exciting or ingenious as it hopes to be.
Reviews for Fermat's Room
The best part is that, for once, it's a film about smart people.
10/02/09
... a cerebral thriller with a different kind of locked-room mystery.
09/28/09
Fermat's Room appears to be about maths, but it's more of a whodunnit, and a surprisingly watchable one at that.
08/17/09
This is an ingenious, relentlessly exciting film, a moral fable at once visceral and cerebral.
06/02/09
An ingenious Spanish thriller about maths, sex, ambition and dog poo.
06/02/09
The diabolical m.o. in these things is never really satisfactory, and even the fun of the conceit is somewhat muffled by the film’s lurid colour design and headachey close-ups.
05/29/09
Tense and brainy. And thoroughly entertaining.
05/29/09
Maths boffins + twist of mystery - patchy ending = uneven thriller.
05/29/09
The maths element of the film, which on the surface is its USP, feels like dressing on a taut but tawdry genre thriller.
05/29/09
God knows I’m no maths genius but even I can spot that if all four hydraulic presses are pushing the walls inwards at once they would simply jam.
05/29/09
The high tension that should come with a race-against-time scenario is never realised, and the film’s solution to the enigma of who-what-and-why this all happened is disappointing.
05/29/09
It's all done with style, with very little of the strain you might expect from filming in such a restricted environment.
05/29/09
A confidently shot, fast-paced first feature.
05/29/09
The possibility of being squished to a pulp always focuses the mind, although, as this by-the-numbers Spanish thriller proves, it doesn't necessarily make arithmetic any more interesting.
05/29/09
This feature debut for co-directors Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña is never quite as clever as it thinks it is, and there are some sizeable holes in the plot. Still, with its teasing sense of play, you won’t be crawling the walls.
05/29/09
The film is sufficiently tense, economical and fast-moving to warrant a Hollywood remake, but lacks the lethal menace or twisted ingenuity of the original Saw.
05/29/09
An ingenious Spanish thriller.
05/29/09
There's something dreadfully pedantic about this locked-room mystery.
05/29/09
An ingenious and thoroughly entertaining Spanish thriller.
05/29/09
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