As elegant and addling as the enigma(s) at its core, this claustrophobic thriller will keep viewers conjecturing right up to its humanist solution.
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05/21/09
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
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
The best part is that, for once, it's a film about smart people.
10/02/09
An ingenious and thoroughly entertaining Spanish thriller.
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
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
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
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
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
An ingenious Spanish thriller.
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
There's something dreadfully pedantic about this locked-room mystery.
05/29/09
A confidently shot, fast-paced first feature.
05/29/09
This is an ingenious, relentlessly exciting film, a moral fable at once visceral and cerebral.
06/02/09
The nifty plot and the puzzles that keep coming should be a pleasure for any thinking viewer.
03/15/09
... a cerebral thriller with a different kind of locked-room mystery.
09/28/09
Tense and brainy. And thoroughly entertaining.
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 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
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