Film Review - Green Room (2016)

Green Room is written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and stars the late Anton Yelchin as Pat the head of a band called the Ain't Rights who are facing the end of their tour when a gig comes their way at a secluded club owned by Darcy (Patrick Stewart) and Darcy has very dark secrets in his club that he will do anything to protect.

Green Room is simply terrific and very genuinely one of the years finest crafted films for these three key reasons:

- First is Saulnier's direction it is truly fantastic to watch just from a craftsman point of view, the film is only 96 minutes long but he makes the absolute most of every moment he puts on screen, nothing feels flabby or wasted but instead air tight and sharply paced, I hope sincerely to see more of him in the director's chair soon.

Another person deserving praise is Sean Porter who was the cinematographer on the film and the mood he creates with that bar with the deep greens and black blacks and beer coloured yellows its almost as if you can feel the piss and vinegar and vomit stains on the wall and the empty glasses on the bar with beer foam still inside, just great world building here.

- Secondly the action in the film is properly violent and bloody and as someone who is so utterly sick to death of seeing toothless and bloodless action in the action films released these days it like Hardcore Henry was very refreshing to see some real blood in the action scenes.

- And lastly the performances are all very good, it is so sad to be watching this after Yelchin sadly passed away and this film shows that he still had so much more to give us as an actor and that it's just so sad that he was taken from us so soon in his life and Stewart is a truly fantastic villain he doesn't do much but his sheer presence reminds us constantly that this guy means business and he'll do whatever it takes to protect his livelihood and again he is just fantastic to watch here.

And that was Green Room which joins Eddie the Eagle and X-Men Apocalypse as one of my top films of the year so far, 4 out of 5.