Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

If you have ever felt stressed about an exam, then you will soon come into play with "Exam" and sense your body shivering from spontaneous anxiety. The whole film resembles a riddle which demands an answer, so the audience could participate in the way of every respectable mystery-film. But here, the newcomer Stuart Hazeldine turns out to create something which will literally put the audience inside a bizarre multicoloured lighted examination room. So, let's pick up the pens and answer the impossible; solve the riddle without breaking the strict rules. The participation in this film is like a video game or a live Skype job interview if you prefer. The creator of this film achieved an utter interaction between the screenplay and the audience which renders this film actually entertaining in a matter of fact. It is a tendency now that every movie shot in one place, especially in a room, become highly appreciated. "Exam" offers a live angst on solving the unsolvable among a bunch of stereotypical characters each one with a role to play and decisions to take. Hazeldine distributes clues throughout the movie and even his excellent close and personal frames betray a diligent job. As for the cast of the unknown actors ordered to capture a team of unique, intelligent and cliched people fighting and showing off for a place next to the God of opportunities, I believe they hit the nail on the head with sincere performances. The agony of the countdown shadows flaws and plotholes and further enriches the suspense of the easily predicted future uncomfortable escalations. Inside a room with specific rules and a motive of surviving of the fittest, people, despite how different their origins or culture or intelligence is, they have no differences; Thus, the way they strive for gaining the power to outweigh the others by automatically activating their inner competitive nature, seems extremely intriguing. Besides the hints about colossal medical enterprises and the bioethical questions deriving from there, "Exam" has another less obvious message about an individual's behaviour under special circumstances opening a philosophical and psychological dialogue at the same time. Overall, the proper mystery atmosphere and a respectful befuddlement plot are enough to like the movie, but the revealing of the multiple hidden implications is enough to praise a fresh artist

I don't want to give away the plot, but overall, I thought this film rather ingenious. 8 people are in a room, suspicious of each other's motives, since they are all competing for a prime position with this mysterious company. If they talk to the guard, or to the camera monitoring them, they are escorted out, one by one. They suspect at least one of them is a plant for the company, and not an actual candidate. It gets pretty intense, since no one knows what is expected of any of them, or what the question is that they're supposed to answer. So, they try to think of every possible ruse to reveal the truth. Consider it a minimalist setting, but I thought the premise worked well, and the twist at the end got me. Give this movie a chance, if you are tired of chases, guns, and brute strength being displayed. There also aren't any zombies in this one, for once.

Exam It has a promising and a gripping concept but that wears off quite soon as it loses the hold off the characters and tracks off somewhere else.

Eight candidates which have reached the final stage of an interview for a prestigious but also very demanding firm are faced with an ultimate test in order to establish a winner. Left alone in a room, they must provide the answer to a question which doesn't seem to exist. In order to do something, they start to thoroughly analyze the situation, and even cooperate in order to find the question for which they must provide the answer.It's an unique movie who's entire plot enrolls in a single room, presenting eight completely different characters fighting to obtain a much desired job. It shows what humans are capable of when being put on the line and what they are willing to do and risk in order to obtain what they desire. It provides mystery and suspense while explaining everything in the end.It's a very good movie overall which has and presents a very good idea, although simplistic at its core, while providing a good finale. My only problem with it is the fact that such special and apparently gifted candidates had quite a rough approach regarding the problem which quite affected the course of events, contrary to my expectations, but I might be a bit subjective here.