The following review makes reference to the 2016 film The Belko Experiment, and does not contain spoilers of any type.

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Year: 2016 Category: Horror, Thriller. Director: Greg McLean. Cast: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Josh Brener, Michael Rooker.

Plot

A group of 83 expatriate Americans who work in a building located in Colombia are trapped in their workplace and are forced to kill each other.

Opinion

In the building of an international company of American origin, Belko Industries, located in Bogota, Colombia, all workers arrive at the office as they do every day, however, that day some guards return to all workers of origin native to their homes, only allowing workers of foreign origin to enter the building.

Inside, during their morning routines we meet each of the characters, Mike Milch who maintains a secret relationship with his co-worker Leandra Florez, which in turn is harassed by Wendell. There is also Barry Norris, who seems to be the head of everyone in the building, and finally to Dany Wilkins, a new employee who is told that Belko Industries should put a device on their heads as a security method, because in Colombia the Index of kidnappings are high.

Soon, all the workers in the building, about 80 people, are informed that they must select two people and kill them, otherwise they will have to face the consequences, successively the windows and the doors are sealed by a type of metal that is not identified avoiding any possibility of the workers fleeing.

Thus begins a bloody killing quite explicit. While a group of workers decide to take control of the situation, others decide to hide, or face the situation from a moral point of view.

The direction is acceptable, apparently Greg McLean likes to show blood, and although some of the things that happen in the film are a bit forced, most develop convincingly. The main problem lies in the fact that, like Cube, what starts all the violence and development of story is something without enough logical support. That is, the characters are in an unbelievable situation and with insufficient justification they will kill each other to entertain the viewer with violence.

The performances are fine, although the identification with the characters is not satisfactory, hardly the viewer will sympathize with any of them, and it is not necessarily due to the performance, but rather that the script and direction does not develop this aspect of the story.

This is the kind of film that a specific type of audience likes, and although in the right circumstances anyone can entertain for a moment watching this film, it is not for all kinds of audiences.

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Score

7/10

Acceptable direction, simple and predictable script, good performances but characters without depth. At the moment of publishing this review this film is available in the Netflix catalog for United Kingdom.