Breathing Room Movie Review
*repost from 07/24/2008
Directed by John Suits and Gabriel Cowan
Starring Alissa Marshall, Michael McLafferty and David Higlen
Availability: on dvd 09/30/2008
Yeah its pretty much a Saw and Cube wannabe and not a very good one at that. Its another one of those people trapped in a room and dont know how they got there movies. First off the quality of the video is pretty poor. All the fluorescent lighting in the bright room doesn't show very well on film. Also doesn't help that most of the acting is sub par. The basic premise of the movie isn't that bad but the script and execution was definitely lacking.

Are you scared of this mastermind?
The story revolves around this chick that wakes up in a closet of dead people and when she opens the door it leads into a warehouse room with other people in a jumpsuit and these cheesy Home Depot collars on their necks. Soon after this dorky fat faced dude appears on a video screen advises them that they are part of a game and they will need to kill each other off because there will only be one winner. There are written clues scattered throughout the room that the prisoners slowly discover. I liked that concept but it never really paid off like it should have.

The main problem with the movie are the characters themselves. Pretty much all of them are douches that you dont give a fuck about. When each one of them were picked off I was happy as hell to see them go. Towards the end of the movie the big reveal is that there is a pedophile, a rapist, and a murderer left in the room. Another blown idea that could have paid off better if it was explored more. Also the big reveal or twist of the movie was fairly obvious from early on.

Rev. Jackson come over here and cut this boy's nuts off!


Too bad you cant rate movies on potential because it could have been an 8 at least. The inadequate direction, the unexplored script plus the bad acting all equal up to a third rate cube/saw ripoff at best. At least there could have been some good gore or titties to make up for it but nope they failed in that department also. Memo to director: having several scenes of switching from red lights to darkness is not that effective of a way to scare people. On a scale of 1-10 I give this a makeshift gunpowder bomb 4.5 out of 10.

Heres the Trailer