The Belko Experiment

Admittedly, the climax picks up a little in terms of the Grand Guignol by indulging in neon lighting and tableaux-like shots of desecrated bodies.

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The Belko Experiment rides a gushing wave of carnage through the elevators of an unsuspecting office building, gleefully making wolves out of sheep.

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Greg McLean and screenwriter James Gunn lock scores of office workers up to kill each other in a brisk, bloody thriller.

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Barely running ninety-minutes long, “The Belko Experiment” often feels like a half-formed sketch of a script brought to life, rather than something that warrants a tiresome sequel tease at the end.

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The film's characters are stock types without enough satirical texture to fulfill their function in the narrative.

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Bored cubicle workers at an anodyne human resources company in Colombia at first think it’s a prank when the windows are sealed off and a voice comes on the intercom to tell them that, if two of them don’t get murdered, there will be consequences. Then people’s heads start to explode.

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You don't need to squint very hard to see the satirical elements that might have elevated blood-soaked horror flick "The Belko Experiment" to greatness.

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It’s bring-your-homicidal-tendencies-to-work day in this bloody dull lark from writer James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”)

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The Belko Experiment is a grisly, sick-making exercise in sadism that tries to camouflage its base venality in a thought-experiment plot.

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Time was a movie like this could stir some outrage.

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