"Green Room" is a movie with a solid beginning and middle, and a fuzzy ending; or what happens when a film is made out of a half-formed idea -- albeit one that's at least directed and acted very well. Heck, with less of an anticlimactic ending, it might even have edged towards some kind of weightless greatness, being a story of a punk band's bloody collision with a troop of rank-closing neo-Nazis after they stumble into a murder scene. And when it comes to scenes of violence and gore, Jeremy Saulnier's movie delivers the goods with the usage of shotgun blasts, machete slicings and even dog attacks. It's just that all the really meaty stuff is in a middle third that doesn't lead into a satisfactory conclusion, unless a somewhat miscast Patrick Stewart (as the neo-Nazi leader) being exposed as a paper tiger by Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots (both excellent) is your idea of catharsis. "Green Room" is still a good movie, but it sets itself up for a fall and, well, falls..
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