Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘The Belko Experiment’

Written by Scott Edwards

​Sometimes it is just fun to head out to a public place and watch people. With everyone coming from different backgrounds and having very different agendas, it is just interesting to see how each person carries themselves differently. Trying to come up with a story for that person is what really makes this practice fun, mainly because you can come up with anything and not know if you are right or wrong when they leave your view. Everyone has a story to tell but most of them will not tell it to a stranger, so your story might be the only one that you will ever truly know.
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Arriving at the office to see that there is ramped up security surrounding it, Mike Milch is getting the feeling that something is up. Watching as a local employee to the Belko Company is sent away, he tries to ask the new security guards what is going on but is not able to get an answer. Getting into the office and still not being able to find out what might be happening, he decides to treat this as a normal day and stops by his girlfriend’s office to see how she is doing. Leandra is noticing the strangeness around the office as well, but with nothing that she can do about it, their day must go on, but an announcement over the intercom system has rattled the office.

Hearing an unknown voice tell the employees of Belko that they are in a game and must kill two people in the next half hour, nobody gives it much credence, but when the building seals up, they find that whatever is happening might be for real. As the clock starts to tick down on their first assignment, Mike and his boss Barry try to keep a cool head and everyone else from freaking out as this must be a prank.  But it is real as the voice is disappointed to report and four people are taken off of the office roster. Knowing now that they are in trouble, Mike tries to focus on a way to get out of the building or flag down some help while Barry is more interested in the cache of weapons locked up in the office.

Finding out that everyone who is at work has a little explosive planted in their heads, the remaining members of the Belko staff are given their next assignment, to kill thirty of their co-workers in the next two hours or sixty will be sacrificed. With a new list of rules to play by, Mike is able to convince everyone to try and signal someone outside of the office to get help, but when trying to put a flag on the side of the building, he is shot at by the new security team. Knowing that escape might not be attainable, Barry forms his own group of former military personal and is ready to execute those who are not worthy to survive their shift. With people being picked off at random by the voice, the office remains divided on what move they should make next, but their time is quickly slipping away as more people will be forced to clock out for the final time.

All I can say about this movie is wow. I loved the blood, which there was a ton of as the experiment took place. The battle for supremacy is what really made this movie stand out for me as Barry and Mike were both going in different directions. The madness that ensued when nobody knew if and when their number would be called really put everyone in survival mode. While I don’t believe that people would react this way if something so horrifying like this took place, I guess I will never know until it happens to me. With a set of rules, a locked down office building, a weapons cache, people hell bent on survival, a plan of escape, plenty of blood and only one way to play the game, this is just a good look into what the survival instinct can force people to do. Stay Scared.

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