Control

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Control

R

2022

2h 9m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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A mother locked inside a stark room is tasked by an unknown voice to complete increasingly difficult challenges if she wants to save her daughter's life. As the frequency and intensity of the tasks threaten to overwhelm her, she must piece together half-remembered chapters of her life before imprisonment if she wants to secure her freedom, rescue her child, and escape this waking nightmare. CONTROL is an intensely thrilling sci-fi mystery that will keep you guessing until the final moments.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

11/15/2023

The Voice’s vengeful motives are ridiculous, and the audience is captive to the special dullness only a suspenseless potboiler can provide.

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

10/05/2022

2/5

Director James Mark keeps the imagery sleek and the atmosphere intriguing but, even when another person appears, it's difficult to care about characters and a situation that are so undefined.

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Christian Valentin

Spectrum Culture

09/29/2022

An admirable albeit flawed evolution of Mark’s genre filmmaking, this delivers some of his familiar bloody carnage but functions as more of an enigmatic thriller. Despite a solid lead, early intrigue, and late action, this felt like a misfire by the end.

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

09/21/2022

While Control may be limited by its budget, it’s certainly not hampered by a lack of imagination.

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Joel Harley

Starburst

09/09/2022

3/5

Making the best of its single room setting (reminiscent of cult classic Cube), James Mark's sci-fi thriller achieves a lot with a little – snappy visuals, a simple concept, and a compelling lead performance.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

08/31/2022

3/5

There are some smart ideas here which help to keep the film interesting even if they never quite achieve their potential.

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Sumeet G

@RT58829294 Aug 31

I think the most difficult task in this movie was to watch it completely. And in the end it was audience who was a genie pig. Absolutely horrendous movie with everything missing right from plot to acting and even basic common sense

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Justin W

@Loonsan 01/21/2023

Good thriller for the budget on a diet while scratching your head when you can only hire 2 actors.

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Darius D

@RT02263393 01/02/2023

Fairly boring. Characters - no depth. Outcome - predictable.

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Ethan S

@RT92639412 10/02/2022

I get that it's a low budget movie and didn't expect much but it was just funny how bad it is

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Synopsis

A mother locked inside a stark room is tasked by an unknown voice to complete increasingly difficult challenges if she wants to save her daughter's life. As the frequency and intensity of the tasks threaten to overwhelm her, she must piece together half-remembered chapters of her life before imprisonment if she wants to secure her freedom, rescue her child, and escape this waking nightmare. CONTROL is an intensely thrilling sci-fi mystery that will keep you guessing until the final moments.

Director: James Mark
Producer: Bruno Marino
Screenwriter: James Mark, Matthew Nayman
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: High Star Entertainment, Kemodo Entertainment
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Some Strong Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 23, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2022
Runtime: 2h 9m