Sadly Over-hyped

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

**SPOILER** I understand that there is symbolism in the movie. I understand the guy and girl may be dead or purgatory. How they act in the vault, decides they're fate. I would even venture a guess and say, the whole movie was about him. And she was just one more item/part/thing in the vault for him to interact with, in deciding his fate. In fact, I don't know if every version of this movie has her subtitles in German instead of in English. So I got my tablet and translated her subtitles from German to English. No body who posted a message referred to her limited back story. But she was going to a wedding. She doesn't know why she's there. Doesn't know the guy. She's religious. She says she always does what shes told. She asks if G*d wants her dead. Asks why is she being punished. She refers to her mother being disappointed. While the guy's sounds like a jerk, and with no faith. So she has no reason to be there unless she's dead, and there to help him reform.The part that puzzles me is the items in the vault. He has a dead rat, a hidden key, and a locked locker with a welding torch and tools. Symbolically speaking, the key comes from the light. He has a blue collar speech pattern and has a locker and tools.She is in the dark, inside a coffin. The lamp in her vault is very decorative. Her lights can be turned on and off, but his can't. Lamps light their way?The third vault has a grave with a fallen chandelier, and a red/orange grave stone. I don't understand the need for the items in this vault. Maybe they symbolize their ending. It's time to decide their fate? Why a red/orange grave stone? Why a fallen chandelier? Does the glass beads and light represent heaven, and the worm in the grave represent death?Why did she have sex? Was she a virgin and her wedding was hers? Did she want him out of his funk? He broke down and started to cry. She tried to talk him out of it. Then slapped him. Then kicked him. She finally pulled him out of the grave. He was thirsty, so she gave him her tears. He had no will to continue, so she had sex with him so he'd feel alive again?My question is, are the items in each vault symbols that tell a story, why he was there? The key for the locker came from the overhead light fixture... why? Does light symbolize hope for him? If the items have a purpose, does that mean he should have checked each vault for items to use for his escape. Except for the items in his vault, the coffin, and the girl, he ignored every item. The items in his vault are industrial. The items in her vault were somber. The older artistic coffin. The older artistic lamp. And the over the head lamp with a cord, if you want light or not. The third vault had the grave and the chandelier. My biggest question is... what was in the 4rth vault. Is there a 4rth vault? If the vaults are square rooms. And he travels to the other vaults that share walls with his vault. And when the door opens and they see outside, the vault door opens wide and stops on a side wall. Doesn't that hint to a 4rth vault?Personally, once the key falls from the lamp, which he uses to get tools. I would have used my imagination and taken a better look at the other items.I love the movie but... My biggest criticism of the movie is that the guy ignores allot, and that's why people may rate this movie low. It's like a mystery story, the author shows every clue to the reader/viewer, so they can better understand why the villain is the villain. It's also entertaining for the audience to try to solve the mystery before the story detective figure it out. In this movie, it feels like there is so much clues/symbolism that are ignored or unexplained. In a good story, the main character is like the mouse on a computer screen. The audience/reader can't interact with the story/characters/clues, but we get to explore them when the main character interacts with his environment. The guy in this story just ignores allot.

This film was not as terrible as some reviews make out and is well worth 80 odd minutes of your life. It was never going to win an Oscar but then neither are thousands of other far less worthy pieces. You know by now the plot from other reviews so you also know it's a story of symbolism. I love mysteries and that's what keeps you watching. The quality (acting, script, filming making) is strong enough to keep you wanting to know what's the out come. I've seen enough films that provide NO ending at all or the very obvious one where the character just dies as he would in reality. That would have left me annoyed!!. Just a couple points I would have liked a clearer explanation of though. I know it had a meaning, but the not looking and backing up to the doors to open them???? And another point no one mentioned. How did he get on top of the cabinet and WHY? Thinking about it, one area for improvement would have been a tighter, more realistic script. Some points are just not right and would not have taken much to put right. For example he's far more likely to have tipped over the cupboard than go to the bother of climbing on top, and would he really have started drinking urine after just a day. I know I wouldn't. Anyway, a little improvement and an OK movie.

'Iron Doors' is a low-budget film obviously based on other claustrophobic survival horror movies, but with its own twist.In general, the plot isn't especially original, but as the movie progresses you will find aspects which haven't been seen in similar films. The originality it has however, isn't quite enough to save the film from the rest of it's flaws.Let's start with the acting. It's pretty bad. It's not the worst acting you've ever seen, but the performances are definitely nothing special.The main character is incredibly annoying, unlikeable, and uninteresting. Not only that, but he doesn't even seem to care about the predicament he's in. Almost throughout the entire film he's making ridiculous jokes and comments to himself. Also, he's an idiot. Even after the fourth day in the cell, he still thinks it might be a practical joke. The African woman on the other hand, is at least an interesting character. The language barrier between the two is funny at first, but eventually gets old.The film leaves WAY to many unanswered questions. Who imprisoned them, and why? Were there any other people besides them? (I'm assuming there were more people because it wouldn't be possible for whoever imprisoned him to anticipate which wall he would try to break out of.) How is the method by which the doors would open explained? The most absurd part would have to be the ending. I can't comment on what that was supposed to mean. I also don't care. I'm usually all for 'interpreting' films like this, but in this case I really just don't care at all.Despite all of these flaws, I was still interested throughout the whole movie, mainly because I thought a lot of the questions would be answered. It's not just that though. Watching those two try to figure out how to get out, and watching their chemistry despite their language barrier is pretty entertaining. Somehow, I never felt bored watching it. Maybe I'm just a sucker for movies remotely similar to 'Cube' or 'Saw'. Anyway, I'd probably recommend giving it a watch, because while it's certainly not a masterpiece, it is entertaining. And like I said, I really think it's unique in many areas.

Yep. Iron Doors really is an 80 minute pretty well filmed movie about a guy who wakes up to find himself locked in a cement room with a big iron door. He talks to himself and repeatedly uses every curse word known to man before he drinks his own urine out of his shoe and eats some maggots and then talks to himself about drinking urine and eating maggots. Finally he bangs a hole in the wall and finds an African woman in another room with another big iron door. Instead of English, she speaks Zimbabwe or something with German subtitles so our hero continues to talk to himself as he tries to bang another hole in another wall with his bare hands, apparently forgetting that a few scenes back he had a pair of leather gloves. After he drinks his new friend's urine out of his shoe, the two of them sing songs and bang on the wall for about twenty minutes until they figure out that if they don't look at the big iron door and walk backward toward it, it will magically open for them. It does open, and so they find themselves locked in another room with another big iron door. Now they try to dig their way out through the floor but that doesn't work because apparently if this guy doesn't eat in two days he gets so weak he has to crawl around on all fours moaning and groaning, while the woman, who I'm assuming has been trapped just as long as he's been trapped without food or water, has all the energy in the world and uses it to give him some complimentary sexing, after which they don't look at the door and walk backward toward it and it magically opens and they find themselves on another planet. Yep.