Review of Exam

Exam (2009)
4/10
Dumb and derivative
16 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
"Any questions?" "Yeah, I've a question." End of the exam. End of the movie. And imagine this was answered by White or Brown. Great! You've just hired a murderer/a torturer as your new assistant, Mr. Smart. And, unless they lied, they didn't even have to apply.

By the way, answering the question IS communicating with the "invigilator", which breaks the rules. Writing the answer spoils your paper, which breaks the rules too.

Four of them vote to break the lights in the room (including Blondie). And what if there was no emergency lighting? 60 minutes in the dark? Why not wait and try that later? As a CEO, I would never hire such a bunch of idiots.

They find a lighter and the first thing they try is to simulate a fire? Any kid in the world would have tried to warm up the paper to check for invisible ink. But, no. Complicated stuff first, right?

White tried sooner to pee on the Asian woman's copy, and not risk disqualification, but, apparently, he doesn't care about wetting his OWN paper anymore.

The only thing wrong White did before the end of the movie is to make two candidates disqualify themselves. Is it worth death? Black seems to think it is, since he takes away his pill without remorse. Wow! Three men, three criminals. We're in good company... (By the way, if you had such a sickness that you have to take a pill every hour, would you carry only one with you?)

Let me tell you : if anybody is threatening my life or my physical integrity, I'm out of here. I don't care about their stupid test.

There's no reason for the second button of the clock to be pushed by Deaf, or even to exist. Except to play with us, the audience.

Why do they keep their names a secret? Just because it sounds cool? "Reservoir Dogs" anyone?

There's a lot more, but you get the idea : dumb script trying to be smart. Still, good acting, interesting premise, sustained tension. Not TOO bad.
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