The Belko Experiment
In a twisted social experiment, 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
22 May 1974, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 October 1984, Houston, Texas, USA
31 August 1963, New York, USA
21 June 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 10, 2017
A one-note scenario that never ups the ante on itself, and never even bothers to use its extreme situation to send up office politics or corporate policies.
April 20, 2017
It is directed by Greg McLean and has an energetic performance by John Gallagher Jr as the unsplattable hero, but we've seen this Battle Royale or Hunger Games scenario too many times.
April 08, 2017
its origins are in the Stanford Experiment ... how long would it take you to become a killer?
March 16, 2017
For all its promise to be a wry commentary on the savagery of office politics, "The Belko Experiment" is more like an experiment in how many cracked-open skulls can be crammed into one movie.
April 05, 2017
Unfortunately, as the film becomes bloodier and bloodier, it also becomes more and more deadening, with each subsequent death a little less shocking and impactful.
March 16, 2017
You may think of Dilbert one minute, the Nuremberg defense the next. No, really.
April 20, 2017
Bargain-basement satire and formulaic, seen-it-all-before bloodshed.
March 17, 2017
Vicious, mostly satisfying action.
March 16, 2017
We live in disturbing times. Belko is an appropriately disreputable, gleefully disturbing movie.
April 21, 2017
This is little more than a sadistic exercise in violence and death, more along the lines of the Saw series. And if it didn't have such a terrific cast, it would be unwatchable.
April 20, 2017
A brutal little belter of a film, with satire and splatter laid on as thick as you like.
March 16, 2017
By the end of the film, you're left with the unshakable feeling that everyone involved, from actors to filmmakers to the audience, is, and should have been, better than material like this.
April 10, 2017
The Belko Experiment offers an intensified allegory of today's world of work - as well as the thrill of the hunt - all in an amusingly banalised milieu of lobbies, lifts and cubicles.
March 30, 2017
As a parable about the inherently dehumanizing aspects of the rat race, it's bloody good fun.
April 21, 2017
Good, clean - well, not clean - generic fun from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean, bolstered by a solid ensemble cast and impressive bloodwork.
March 21, 2017
The unsatisfying result of all the berserk paranoia is predictable.Talk about a take-no-prisoners plot.
April 07, 2017
Survival is human nature. But what happens after that? Belko leaves that up to its audience, but with little evidence to try and make a decent argument.
April 21, 2017
As grisly entertainment, it works, and it does have a mean bite, but it doesn't quite live up to its potential.
