White Chamber

I am starting to get concerned by the quality of output from Netflix. I find myself starting to watch a film, and often switching off ten minutes in. I did, however stick with White Chamber, as I thought the premise was decent, and it featured some good actors, including Sharon Maughan and Nicholas Farrell, but I wish I hadn't.

The truth is, this is a bad film, it cannot be dressed up any other way, after an interesting start, it goes downhill very quickly, the whole thing feels cheap and amateur. It's like a film an independent company would have produced in the early 2000's, not something millions of paying a subscription fee for.

Sharon Maughan and Nicholas Farrell do provide a bit of quality in terms of acting, but both are up against it in terms of script. It had potential, but ultimately it's a bad film. 3/10

I watched the movie over the course of two nights, so I guess that says something about it not exactly keeping you on the edge of your seat. The premise the movie is set on is okay however like all movies of this era it squeezes in a political message and after an hour or so of bland storytelling the movie tries to hand out a twist (or three) and all but one I could guess would happen long before they actually did. The one twist I didn't see coming is so chichéd in films it hardly deserves to be called one, I guess I didn't see that one coming as it's a poor plot device (There were many other alternatives) to explain why the start of the movie is the way it is.

All in all I feel every copy of this film should be confined to a dark chamber, never to again see the light of day.

Three stars for decent actors.

A fairly basic story that has been explored in other films, unfortunately weighted down by an unsubtle political message poorly communicated.

The acting is good, the production values high and dialogue well delivered despite the bland script. I feel the actors really working hard to make the film gel, which makes it more the pity that it doesn't. After an hour of gratuitous torture I felt like the person in the box.

The experience wasn't going well and this gave me too much time to ask myself where this film was going? It was going nowhere...

This one is going to sink without trace having failed in its social message. What one is left with is an over articulated cerebral video nasty.

Worth a watch for a waste of time, yes. Nothing that happens in the film is memorable and you'll forget you ever watched it an hour later. The chamber looks like it was built with various left over parts from Ikea. A wholly forgettable experience.

What a lose film. It was torture to watch this. Barely watched it for 30min.

No effort was done on its direction or story telling.