SomeoneRoom 6
May 26th 2009 14:32
Premise: Following a car accident, a the boyfriend of a school teacher is taken away by an ambulance, but the school-teacher girlfriend cannot find him in any of the surrounding hospitals. She is joined by the other party in the crash, who has lost his sister to the same mysterious ambulances. Meanwhile, the boyfriend awakes from the crash in a strange hospital, St. Rosemary's, at which nothing is what it seems.
Spoilers ahead, read on at your own peril.
Now, usually I am a fan of those movies that are a representation of something else... Identity being a prime example, or Secret Window, or Fight Club... but I can't really say this appreciation extends to Room 6.
The movie is basically the main character's struggle with self forgiveness, following a tragic event involving her father in her youth. She sees demons, which are her inner demons. The movie is pretty blunt about it to. "You belong here with us" gets thrown around alot. And that's really where the difference lies. That moment of realization is really what defines those movies (Think back to the first time you saw The Usual Suspects. You know what I'm talking about), and Room 6 is really lacking. One of the great things about those realization movies is that you can watch them again, and every time you pick up that extra subtle hint, that slight nuance that is a clue of what is to come. There isn't any of that in Room 6.
The rest of the movie, unfortunately, doesn't make up for this shortfall.
Got any change?
Also... Christine Taylor should stick to letting Ben Stiller put his dick in her. She is ridiculously awful in this movie. She runs for her life from monsters... at a jogging pace. Very convincing, Christine. Very convincing indeed. The worst thing was... she wasn't alone. Jerry O'Connell puts in a bland and uninteresting performance, has a mild twist associated with his character that you can easily spot as soon as his character is introduced. And really, you can't take the guy seriously in anything he does. Shane Brolly does an awfully good job of appearing uninterested in the weird occurrences in the hospital around him.
So yeah... tries to be Jacob's Ladder, but falls far short. Probably not worth your time, even for the topless vampire nurse blood orgy.
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