By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Greg McLean
Cast: John Gallagher Jr, Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, Melodine Diaz, Owain Yeoman, Sean Gunn, John C. McGinley, Brent Saxtor and Michael Rooker.
Rating: Poor.
Horror Film director Greg McLean joins forces with writer/director James Gunn with “The Belko Experiment”, a thriller which the execution was very poor.
Set in Bogotá, Colombia, the film tells the story of 80 Americans working in corporate facility named Belko Industries.
Minutes later there is a voice in the intercom that tells the employees that in order to survive they have to play a game of kill or be killed.
Now the employees are in a race against time to stop this deadly game or end up killing each other in order to survive.
“The Belko Experiment” could have been an interesting thriller if the execution would have been done properly. The major problem of the film is that it was to predictable and you knew exactly what was going to happen from the minute it started until the end.
James Gunn, who is well known for directing and writing “Guardians of the Galaxy”, which will have a sequel to be released in May, knows the genre very well but this time he did fail and badly.
The characters that he wrote were to vague and full with emptiness thatyou don´t care for anyone.
The directing by Greg McLean was not precise and the performances by the cast were a complete mess. The visuals and the camera was also a huge factor in this film and visually could have been a good experience but still it would not have worked due to the poor screenplay that was written.
Instead of being scared, I was laughing of the moments that were supposed to be scary since they were hilarious.
When the second act of the film started it was the beginning of the downward spiral. From the beginning you knew exactly who was going to be the survivor in the deadly game and they weren´t any surprises that you need to use in this kind of movies to make them work.
The movie had an interesting cast with actors like Tony Goldwyn, John C. McGinley and Michael Rooker who were very well known by at eighties and nineties but still the movie is a disaster.
There were moments of tension that were interesting but for a movie like this you need to be smart on how to play with the audience and I didn´t see anything of it here.
The ending of the film was poorly executed and should have ended in another way.
“The Belko Experiment” is one of the worst movies I have seen in this 2017 and I cannot recommend it.
And please think about it twice before watching this film since it´s is a big waste of time and money.