Green Room

I wanted to like this more. The premise is the most basic of horror, and it should work: getting in trouble for seeing something you shouldn’t have. In this case, a murder in the back room of a neo-Nazi Bar. But the characters are flat and dull. Dialogue is muddled both figuratively — I could never quite understand what the bad guys were planning at any given time — and literally, as much is so muted or mumbled, you need subtitles. The tension is there, the acting is good — who knew Patrick Stewart would make a fascinating bad guy? — but a script that needed another pass or two and characters that needed more fleshing out drag this down for me.