The Room Review

The Room, the well renowned film, is it worth a watch? Let’s find out!

The Scores

Interest: 5.5/10

Acting: 5/10

Storyline: 4/10

Intensity: 5/10

Fights Guns or Otherwise: 6/10

Nudity: 8/10

Director Score: 6/10

Musical Score: 7/10

Dialogue: 5/10

Logic In The Film: 7/10

The Room is a 2003 film. It is considered a drama. The run time is one hour and thirty-nine minutes. The three main stars of the film are Tommy Wiseau (Known for The Room, Best F(r)iends: Volume 1, Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance, and Corsica Arts Club: California I Follow), Juliette Danielle (Known for The Room, Development Hell, The Story of Sarah, and The Story of Sarah 2), and Greg Sestero (Known for The Room, The Disaster Artist, Best F(r)iends: Volume 1, and Retro Puppet Masters). The Director is Tommy Wiseau as well. I will try to sum up the movie the best I can “Johnny, a successful banker, lives with his fiancee Lisa. Lisa gets bored with him one day and goes on to seduce his best friend, Mark. After that nothing will ever be the same!” Let's take a closer look at the categories shall we?

Interest: The Room, to me, is one of the most interesting films ever. Not because the movie as a storyline or plot that is gripping or memorable, but because your mind tries to put together pieces of a puzzle, that are old, missing pieces, a couple of pieces from another puzzle, while an industrial fan is blowing at the pieces. I’m always enthused as to how this film just keeps me perplexed and confused, and yet be a laughing riot, unintentionally. But this being said if it’s your first watch and without a guide to show you the finer things in the film, you may still hate it and turn it off, with a guide it is much more enjoyable, in my experience.

Acting: Acting is not this movies strong suit, of the “Main Characters” (People that have more than one scene), the mother is the best actor out of all of them, and to fight for second place is either Greg or Juliette, then Tommy and Denny round our the bottom. The best sing actor with just a small scene is Dan Janjigian, who is an Olympic bobsledder. Yes that is right, he may really be the best actor in the film.

Storyline: The storyline is truly shallow, being a drama about a couple, the girl cheating on the man, with his best friend. And some other crazy things happen, but in the grand scheme of things the actual story doesn’t seem to matter, and some of the side stories are left completely open, like the “It’s definitely breast cancer” line. This storyline is just there to string this line of random thoughts Tommy had together.

Intensity: The intensity in the film really, sadly doesn’t exist. The movie tries in a few scenes to add intensity to that scene or the film as a whole, but it either turns into humor, or irritation on the viewers part. But, the film does get some kudos because some scenes, right before someone speaks, you can almost feel the intensity. Plus, in one scene on the rooftop with Greg’s character, Mark feels like it has some actual intensity, that isn’t just good acting.

Fights, Guns or Otherwise: Actual fighting is pretty tame in the film, with Tommy’s character Johnny, and Mark “fighting” a couple times, which is nothing more than pushing each other a couple times and call each other chickens. Now as for the verbal lashing that are dished out, it is fairly tame, a F-bomb here and there, but really just calling each other chicken. PTSD or long term mental anguish, actually happens with the ending I’d say. Denny totally gets some sort of trauma and is honestly a little sad, and funny.

Nudity: The movie has nudity in it. Juliette’s character Lisa is topless in the film, and we see a lot of Tommy Wiseau’s ass, more than anyone should have to. The nudity in the sex scenes were semi necessary but the amount of ass we see from Tommy is too much!

Director Score: Tommy Wiseau is a strange man, and this is his first film ever, and he directed it, acted in it, wrote the screen play, and produced it, he did everything to complete his dream. Nevertheless we aren’t here to talk about him specifically, we are here to talk about his directing abilities. And they are not the worst I have ever seen. They aren’t great either. His shots are okay, costume wise everyone wears semi-normal clothing. Tommy’s main problem is he doesn’t understand actual real life and how people actually are in real life, and how they’ll react to things, how they talk, or how they feel.

Musical Score: The musical score is terrible and cheesy. It's all R&B music that is all lovey (only meant during sex scenes) otherwise the music is sporadic throughout the film. The best use of music is the Dan Janjigian rooftop scene (Dan Janjigian is known as Chris-R in the film). The music is actually ominous and scary, and brings real tension to the scene, to bad it is broken up immediately with poor timing of dialogue, and swiftness of action to dissolve the situation, thus ending the musics' effectiveness.

Dialogue: Oh the dialogue. This is the part of the movie that makes things crazy if you aren’t paying attention to the small details. The dialogue is if you transferred a script for a daytime soap opera, put it into google translate, changed it from English to French, French to Chinese, Chinese to Korean, Korean to Vietnamese, and Vietnamese to English, and then cut out just some of the parts that made linking gaps in the otherwise confusing dialogue. What I’m getting at is it is incredibly disjointed and things that you think will matter in the movie, never matter, and small one off things, somehow matter a great deal. It is such a confusing thing to just have to see and hear.

Logic in the film: Well physics are (probably obeyed) Minus taking Chris-R to jail, that seemed a little off of time unless they live right next to the jail. Perhaps even some other strange oddities like that happen. Yet, the strange talks about some things (Like Drug money debts, or breast cancer) are overshadowed by littler things (in my opinion) like two people having sex in your apartment, and your mother-in-law finding out. It just seems like that is the thing to worry about more.

Did I like the movie, somehow I still say yes to this watching it more than two-dozen times. Do I recommend it? Also, yes. It is a strange film to even know it was made, let alone released in theaters. In its run it only made about 1800 dollars but it is for bad movie watchers the possible quintessential bad movie. It is a complete and utter blunder of a film that makes no fucking sense, no matter you state of mind, and just seems like the rabbit hole never ends, and you won’t stop watching because you think something profound happens, and it never does. The movie you can watch on your own but it is always more enjoyable with a group of friends ripping on the film, making jokes and just sitting quietly on occasion, thinking in wonderment as to how this film was even made, and has gone so far in its life. I give The Room gets a 58.5% but if you’re a bad movie enthusiast, you will probably find this film is a 100%. Well folks, Until Next Time!