An ingenious and thoroughly entertaining Spanish thriller.
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05/29/09
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
Once the walls start to move, there's barely a moment to catch your breath as sharp editing, clever camera angles and good use of sound, squeeze the tension of every moment.
05/19/08
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
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
As elegant and addling as the enigma(s) at its core, this claustrophobic thriller will keep viewers conjecturing right up to its humanist solution.
05/21/09
An ingenious Spanish thriller about maths, sex, ambition and dog poo.
06/02/09
The filmmakers have us hooked with a terrific mystery and the challenge of a good puzzle.
11/11/09
Maths boffins + twist of mystery - patchy ending = uneven thriller.
05/29/09
The best part is that, for once, it's a film about smart people.
10/02/09
A confidently shot, fast-paced first feature.
05/29/09
An ingenious Spanish thriller.
05/29/09
The nifty plot and the puzzles that keep coming should be a pleasure for any thinking viewer.
03/15/09
This is an ingenious, relentlessly exciting film, a moral fable at once visceral and cerebral.
06/02/09
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
Tense and brainy. And thoroughly entertaining.
05/29/09
And while some of the in-movie puzzles are relatively obvious, the flick as a whole proves to be sort of a puzzle in its own right.
05/07/08
... a cerebral thriller with a different kind of locked-room mystery.
09/28/09
There's something dreadfully pedantic about this locked-room mystery.
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
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
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