Exam (2009)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The acting in this movie is really good.

A room, 8 individuals from different backgrounds, ethnicities and intelligence, what do they have in common? A fixation on being a finalist for a position in a high profile company. What is the question? We travel along with these individuals as they sit in a room with eight tables and chairs and a piece of paper and pencil, sacrifice the piece of paper and your disqualified, talk to the guard or screen and your out, those are the rules. What follows is a deceptive mind game into each person and the question remains the same: WHAT IS THE QUESTION?A complex movie with grit into the psyche of who and what we are, what we do in specific circumstances. Shot entirely in a cinemascope format, and directed the same. A journey unleashes the mind to determine why. I felt the movie was a little slow but the climax at then was twisted, I did have it figured out 20 minutes in though. A solid 6/10

It's good to watch a weird movie every once in a while... This movie is definitely not your every day movie and not a one that pleases a lot of people but you need some twisted plots now and then.The idea is amazing and it builds tension through out. There is not much of action going on but that what makes a good movie if it is well made, and this one surely delivers.The acting is fairly good with every character really possesses a different personality. It was a shame getting rid of the Chinese girl very early in the plot. I guess keeping her for a longer time would made the plot more complicated, but a bit of complication never hurts anyone.Overall, it's a good movie and a change of the stereotypical movies we watch all the time. Not for every one, but worth the time!!!

As the movie begins, you becomes really excited about " The Exam " and all puzzles and mind work. But after 15 minutes, it turns out as drama, and whole mind and logical game becomes little violent type drama nothing else. No doubt end is shocking, but mostly it is predictable because I hope you have seen major spy titles.

I began watching this movie with high expectations as I love these kind of movies with few actors in a closed locations .. The beginning was promising and fast and up to the point .. No time was wasted in preparing for the story .. But as the story proceeded things got screwed .. The development of the events was not interesting at all .. I got bored of the story so quickly ..The way they were trying to discover the nature of the question and the way they tried to disqualify each others were ridiculous and boring .. And the actors were so bad that I couldn't understand where they stood from what is happening .. The way they reacted for extreme things such as the act of homicide was shallow as if they were a group of killers not ordinary people in an interview for a job!! And right before the end of the movie when you think that it can't get worse I was surprised with what considered to be the twist at the end .. Not because of the twist itself of course, but because it made me hate every second I had wasted on watching this movie .. A silly twist that didn't add nothing at the end and demonstrated how miserable the movie was .. I don't recommend that movie at all for anyone, unless you want to know how a trivial story and modest actors can meet to make you hate a category of movies you used to love before ..