Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
The Room is one of cinema's most singular artifacts — Tommy Wiseau's semi-autobiographical melodrama is so uniquely bizarre in conception, dialogue, and execution that it has achieved genuine cult immortality. Its plot is incoherent and its acting is legendarily poor, with stilted line readings and inexplicable character motivations throughout. Cinematography is mediocre but functional, with the odd distinction of being shot simultaneously on 35mm and HD. The ending, while melodramatic, is one of the film's more emotionally coherent sequences and lands with a kind of accidental weight. Novelty is a genuine 4 — no other film sounds, feels, or operates like The Room; its voice is utterly unmistakable, for better or worse.