After a disastrous tour, the little punk rock band The Ain’t Rights agrees to do a concert in deepest Oregon, in a club for skinheads. Backstage, one of the band members witnesses a horrible crime. The venue owners decide to hold the band hostage, and they find themselves in a room trying desperately to survive ...

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Jeremy Saulnier gained much attention in 2014 for Blue Ruin, a not very extraordinary revenge story hailed at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Second verse, same as the first: Green Room, went to Cannes and got lots of hype – except this time it’s not living up to it. With a simple but effective premise, carried by a very good group of actors (Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart), the director has made a movie that is too modest and conventional. Because despite some memorable scenes, in which he films the violence with sensational brutality, Saulnier’s plot lacks imagination and daring, to the point where, for connoisseurs of the genre, it looks like a race to the death. Although Green Room is sufficiently crafted, it struggles to be memorable.