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Exam
The film tells a story of intense competition. It is about eight candidates having excellent talent are hungry to have the last chance working in one of the top corporation. They are locked in a room without window to answer a simple mysterious question.
16 November 1971, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
1973, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
1 March 1976, London, England, UK
1975, Nigeria
29 November 1982, London, England, UK
6 December 1962, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
15 March 1979, Scotland, UK
January 15, 2010
The tale is ingeniously developed, the suspense well maintained, and you'll think more highly of it if you have to leave five minutes before the disappointing pay-off.January 15, 2010
This low-budget British chamber piece has an intriguing scenario, so it's a shame that the po-faced, sci-fi-tinged screenplay fixates on the applicants' efforts to detect invisible ink on their exam papers.May 31, 2010
The ninth person working on this puzzle will be the viewer.December 19, 2010
Low-budget but handsomely mounted cross between Cube and 12 Angry Men, with some script input by mystery writer Agatha Christie and literary critic Terry Eagleton.September 17, 2010
Benefits from a bit of dark humor, some critically important editing tricks, and a mystery that's actually sort of ... interesting.November 19, 2010
An intriguing yet uneven thriller...July 16, 2009
Claustrophobic psychological-drama is a flawed but intriguing exercise in script writing ingenuity and economy.January 15, 2010
Despite their supposed cleverness, all the candidates here make mistakes that would be avoided by anybody with even the slightest knowledge of how these situations usually pan out in movies, and the whole thing gets very silly by the end.June 09, 2011
A tight psychological thriller with a slight sci-fi edge. A great find.November 05, 2010
Everything is just slightly mysterious and off-kilter.January 08, 2010
Plot twists, lighting changes and shifts of tone work hard to sustain our attention, but the script sometimes becomes too involved in solving the structural challenges it has set itself.