(FOUR STARS)
The scheme is familiar: someone wakes up in an unexpected place and with a dead body nearby. He doesn’t know what happened and, to make matters worse, he is locked up and has little time to resolve the situation.
Here is a young man who, one day before taking his police exam, celebrates with friends and ends up in the situation described. The important thing is that the obstacles he has to overcome to a) get out of where he is, b) solve the issue of the body, c) take the exam are the trivialities of the everyday world, which transforms the whole situation into something completely surreal, for moments of remarkable comic absurdity. three virtues make this movie a recommendable show.
The first, not to last a minute longer (it even gives the impression that it lasts a little less) than it should; the second, that even the most absurd thing we see on screen is extremely convincing; the third, which never fails to make us nervous even when it leads us to laughter. That is to say, “Room 404” It is an example of how to direct a film, of how to tell a story without forgetting that it must interest us second by second.
