White Chamber

Started really well to be fair then completely lost its way once the story switched to outside the chamber, it's like they ran out of ideas.

On the one hand Shauna can act and the basic premise is good. However on the other hand Oded is ludicrously bad, the scripting is dire and the attempts to flesh out characters are non existent. Also I can't figure out why a super secret military base appears to be in a school and the high tech lab is a kids chemistry set balanced on a handrail. Very weak all round.

Reasonably interesting plot let down by bad acting and poor direction. Also looked surprisingly poor for something budgeted by a behemoth like Netflix

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.