The best part is that, for once, it's a film about smart people.
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10/02/09
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
... a cerebral thriller with a different kind of locked-room mystery.
09/28/09
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
Tense and brainy. And thoroughly entertaining.
05/29/09
The filmmakers have us hooked with a terrific mystery and the challenge of a good puzzle.
11/11/09
This is an ingenious, relentlessly exciting film, a moral fable at once visceral and cerebral.
06/02/09
An ingenious Spanish thriller.
05/29/09
A confidently shot, fast-paced first feature.
05/29/09
An ingenious and thoroughly entertaining Spanish 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 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
There's something dreadfully pedantic about this locked-room mystery.
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 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
The nifty plot and the puzzles that keep coming should be a pleasure for any thinking viewer.
03/15/09
Maths boffins + twist of mystery - patchy ending = uneven thriller.
05/29/09
An ingenious Spanish thriller about maths, sex, ambition and dog poo.
06/02/09
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
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
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
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