Here’s what I liked: it’s a catchy-premise movie, with a small cast and a small set; it doesn’t spend much time setting it all up, it just gets going; kudos on actually staying silent for most of it instead of wussing our after 20 minutes. And the things I didn’t care much for: it spends too much time on the premise and not enough time on everything else (the relationships, the symbols, the what’s-it-really-about); the incredibly generic gray reptiloid; the Mars Attacks thing. On paper, I should love this movie, but it didn’t quite click fully with me.

As enjoyable as The Room is on your fifth viewing, but doesn’t quite rise above that original guilty fun of watching Tommy be his weird self.

It's as good an action/sci-fi movie as has ever been made, and on top of it, it's a subversive, complex, yet highly entertaining examination of the cost of social order. It has held up beautifully over the past 15 years, and in retrospect, it's one of the best movies of the 1990s.