Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

jackastrodude The pace of story was weak at first, the concept of the idea had great potential, but the outcome of the whole thing ended poorly. There was more whining than there was killing. When I heard about this movie, I was kind of picturing Would you rather meets Saw. In conclusion, the movie itself performed poorly

a_chinn Crackerjack horror/thriller is highly derivative, but highly entertaining for fans of these sorts of films. A group of Americans office workers find themselves unexpectedly locked inside a high-rise office building and ordered by a mysterious voice over the intercom that they need to murder two of their co-workers within two hours or there will be "consequences." Everyone thinks it's some kind of prank until four of their co-workers' heads explode (everyone has been implanted with a tracker/explosive device). That's when the mysterious voice comes on again to announce "By 2:47 pm, in two hours, we want 30 of you dead through whatever means necessary. If 30 of you are not dead, we will end 60 of your lives through our own methods." That's when this office space turns into Lord of the Flies. Such a set up could easily have become a predictable routine slog of violence, but "The Belko Experiment" was directed by Greg McLean, who memorably directed the highly effective Australian horror film "Wolf Creek" (and to a lesser degree the fun giant alligator film "Rogue"). McClean does an excellent job of building suspense leading up to the explosive episodes of violence. The film was written by James Gunn, who wrote the the surprisingly good "Dawn of the Dead" remake along with writing and directing the underrated "Slither" and the very popular and somewhat subversive "Guardians of the Galaxy" films. Gunn also wrote the underrated comedy "The Specials," which is the film that "The Mystery Men" should have been. What I'm trying to say about Gunn is that he's someone who has solid horror and genre chops, but he's also someone who brings a fair amount of subversive and dark humor to his films, which elevates "The Belko Experiment" from being a simple ripoff of "Battle Royale" to being a dark satire on office politics. And on a straight horror level, I need to give McClean and Gunn credit for some of the deaths coming as genuine surprises, which is not something you get see often in most horror films. However, the situations and the characters are highly derivative and something you've seen many times before. People argue about what to do. Everyone realizes there's no escape. Co-workers find themselves breaking off into factions. Character-wise, there's the jerk boss (an excellent Tony Goldwyn), the nice pretty girl (Adria Arjona), the boss' toadie (the great John C. McGinley), the creepy janitor (Michael Rooker), the comic relief stoner (Sean Gunn), and there's, of course, the relatable normal-guy hero (John Gallagher Jr.). These character stereotypes are elevated by a stronger cast than you'd expect from low-budget thriller, but seeing that "The Belko Experiement" is from Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, Insidious, The Purge, Split, Upgrade), and is best horror film production company since Hammer, you should expect a quality film and that's exactly what you get. Although "The Belko Experiment" is not for all tastes, if you're into these sorts of extreme horror/thrillers, it's is a must see!

JÄnis Locis A poor version of Battle Royale, nothing really original, as there have been numerous movies over the years sharing the same plot. There are lots of employees in this company, so the directors try to interest us in only a handful of them, which sadly does not go that well either, since we do not know any background information on any of these characters. The vast majority of this film is extremely blatant and predictable, you feel as if you have watched this movie a hundred times, because this movie has no fresh ideas, they just recycle the old gory scenes from older cult classics of the genre. When you make a movie of this sort involving a large amount of people, you need a way to kill them off and quickly, which takes a huge amount of suspense and fun out of it, since more than half of the characters are utterly useless, running and screaming providing next to no entertainment. If a situation like this occured in reality more than 6 out of 80 would be ready to fight until death just to survive and return to their families. Instead of that the complete opposite happens in this film, people die for absolutely no reason without giving any effort to survive. All in all, a movie you can easily pass on, nothing new, same old genre shticks overused into a compilation of really bloody and unoriginal scenes. The ending of this movie implies an obvious sequel, which could be a potential possibility to make things right, since the premise of this sequel seems to be much more interesting. If you love this survival horror genre, there are far better movies to watch, for example, ''Battle Royale'', ''Nine Dead'', ''Circle'' and ''Exam'' just to name a few.

Neil Welch Somewhere outside Bogota, someone built an office block where 80 people work as a kind of international staff agency. Or so they think. Which means they are surprised when impenetrable steel shutters seal the building, and a voice tells them that they must kill two of their number within the next 30 minutes or there will be repercussions. Yeah, like it will stop there, right?Spoiler - the intention was always for only one to survive, and our job as audience is to guess which one it will be - or will there be others?I guessed wrong - no surprise there.This simple - and, it must be admitted, not unfamiliar - scenario is executed (pun not intended) professionally, involving sympathetic people, unsympathetic people, and a large number of completely anonymous people who are there simply to fill out the ranks.The reason for this carnage, when revealed - social experiment to see how people react when put in a situation where they have to kill each other for no reason - make no sense. Why? And if that is the reason, why don't the hidden masters of the game take out the ones who are clearly ready to kill during one of the culls, thus increasing the pressure on the others.The strength of this films is that it sustains interest throughout its running time, but ultimately it is ridiculous nonsense, panderingto those who simply like wholesale slaughter. Writer James Gunn can do - and has done - much better.