Exit 8

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• “O primeiro ato é, sem dúvida, o ponto mais forte da produção. A introdução do protagonista no cenário claustrofóbico e a sua gradual percepção de que está preso num looping temporal e espacial emulam com precisão a angústia vivida no jogo. O filme transforma o espetador num participante ativo; a fobia do ambiente subterrâneo é palpável e a exigência de manter os olhos fixos no ecrã para identificar as anomalias visuais cria”

  Davi150612 · Metacritic ↗

• “What is tension in the game becomes repetition, and what could have been expanded becomes mere insistence. It lacks a story to sustain all of this; it lacks a development that goes beyond the **** you can’t even say that the horror holds up on its own, because it appears more as a possibility than as something truly **** the end, it appeals to those who already know the game and even expands on its concept a bit, but it never finds the strength to sustain itself. It feels more like a stretched-out experiment than a complete film.”

  Nerdcall · Metacritic ↗

• “The movie starts slow and quiet, with not much dialogue.”

  eeyk · Metacritic ↗

• “I missed 15 minutes because I fell asleep; that's how quiet the movie is.”

  eeyk · Metacritic ↗

• “the first act, it felt like they accurately captured the eerie, claustrophobic psychological terror of the endlessly looping subway. The film draws the audience in by having them scan for anomalies, just like the main character. There’s also strong tension in watching him struggle with his asthma while trying to escape.”

  MovieWarfare · Metacritic ↗

• “However, this is largely lost from the second act onwards, as the film shifts toward being more character-driven and leans into a metaphor for fatherhood. The tension and sense of terror fade, and even the asthma subplot is completely forgotten.”

  MovieWarfare · Metacritic ↗