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Breathing Room | 
 enlarge | Directors: John Suits, Gabriel Cowan
Actors: Michael Mclafferty, Alisa Marshall, David Higlen
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 43845
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: ANBD16044D
UPC: 013131604498
EAN: 0013131604498
ASIN: B001AYWY86
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/23/2008
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 Keeps you guessing November 10, 2008
StarGypsy (Virginia, USA)
After reading the other reviews, I wonder... when did we become so mindless that a movie has to fill in ALL of the gaps and blatantly SPELL OUT everything? This movie keep you guessing as to who the bad guys are (not one, but at least three) and then ends leaving you to make up your own mind as to the evil purpose behind the game. It was creepy and allowed you to spend the majority of the movie trying to figure it out and then doesn't force its own morality at the end. It doesn't make you scream, it makes you think. What fun is a mystery without surprises? It's entertaining and creepy. Watch it and decide for yourself.
 Breathing Room..........Recycled crap September 30, 2008
Matt C. Handfield (Northampton, Ma USA)
The premise of this movie is like, what if you take Saw and crossed it with The Cube? Poof! Breathing Room!
14 Strangers placed in a room trying to figure out how to get out using clues that are revealed as the story unfolds, Each person wearing a jump suit with their contestant Number on it. As clues are revealed and characters die, the level of paranoia also builds, is one person amongst them the killer?
This movie is ok, not as gory as The Cube, and not as intricately layered as Saw. The drama and the dialogue are pretty intense and the different character types are credible and not too cliché . This Movie centers around Tonya the last of the fourteen contestants who wakes up in the dark next to a dead guy. (98% of this film takes place in this room.) Unlike the cube where the people have to work together, the people in BR must figure out who amongst them is the threat. And in a very Agatha Christie fashion BR is kind of a horror And then there was none. The death scenes are definitely not as gory or as thought out as the trap infested rooms of The Cube, or diabolical devices created in Saw.
However, for a low budget movie it was bloody where it needed to be. Which may have merited a PG-13 rating rather than an Unrated tag. For that matter, if this was an unrated film I'd probably be bored out of my mind with the regular rated version.
On a down note this movie is trying to hard to be Saw II. A bunch of strangers in a room(in Saw II's case a bunch of people in a house) using clues to get out, and just like in Saw II the last person introduced in the group is a chick and by the end of the movie you can easily guess that she is.......well for the people that haven't seen Saw II I won't spoil it. Rip off!
The ending of this film is predictable, and held no surprises......at all!
Bottom Line..................If you're going to make a thriller horror make sure that you have an original idea. Not rip off a couple of movies that are better. Rent it don't buy it. 2 Stars
Interesting thrill ride with NO ENDING September 24, 2008
Blake Petit (Ama, Louisiana United States)
"Breathing Room" is a thrilling ride with a terrible conclusion. Fourteen strangers, thrown into a room together, forced to play some horrible, sadistic "game." Basically, it's a blending of "Saw" and "Cube," but it still had potential. You're trying to piece it together, trying to figure out the true nature of the players... until the ending. The ending is absolutely TERRIBLE, because it MAKES NO SENSE. At the end of the film, you're left with an empty feeling that there was absolutely no point to anything you just watched. Avoid this movie at all costs.
Good not great July 13, 2008
Gabriel Cowan (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In my view, if a film entertains, it's done its job. This is not the best film ever, it's not even close ... but it is a good low budget horror film that keeps one wondering what's going to happen next, and how it's all going to fit together.
A cheap, but entertaining, 'Saw' clone July 11, 2008
Anthony Pittore (Behind You)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
After awaking in a dark closet with a corpse, Tonya (Ailsa Marshall) opens the door to a room full of strangers. At first, it seems, their only similarities are the prison uniforms with which they've been provided and the electric-shock dog collars around their necks. But, as their time together continues, they realize they're all part of a sick & twist game involving rules by which they must all abide and a series of clues they must solve in order to, possibly, find freedom and answers. The fight begins when 'curfews' start and, one by one, the players are eliminated.
Simply. . . it's a pathetically blatant ripoff of [i]Saw[/i] and [i]Battle Royale[/i]. It looks (and sounds) extremely cheap. There's nothing new, original, or interesting about the story. The violence and gore are sparse, and there's no nudity or sex to distract us. It's slow to the point of boredom, with the same things happening over and over again. It's as predictable as the result of a Harlem Globetrotters game. There is very little terror at all, or anything to keep a horror fan happy. In short, there's nothing in this film that can't be seen in five other, better films. So I would suggest seeing those instead. I will give one compliment the acting wasn't too bad and there are a few that actually seem to have a chance at a future. . . as long as they stop doing films like this.
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