This thriller seems to plod along without super strong thrills, but its goal is to make the audience think, which I felt it accomplished. Heavy on symbolism and strong performances helped me enjoy this maybe a bit more than some of the other reviewers, I don't know and I don't want to presume. Lil Rel, whom I had only seen previously in Get Out, sheds the comic relief role of that film for a nuanced lead in this one and is effective as he carries the movie visually with most interactions with other characters being strictly vocal. I would recommend it for those who prefer atmospheric movies, and those who prefer action should probably steer clear.

If you are old enough to remember Schartzeneger in Conan, you'll remember him pushing a similar wheel with 3 other men and then through the magic of a Hollywood montage he became huge over time and pushed it alone. Lil Rey has smaller arms than the kid from Conan (bigger tits though) and when he started pushing it he couldn't even budge it. He had to throw all of his weight onto it 3 times to get it to move an inch or two. Somehow, he worked 16 hours and made 5 laps.... Is that believable? No, but even worse, if you've ever worked that hard at something you are not used too, you know that the next several days are hell. Aches, pain, cramps and he got 1 bottle of water a day. Somehow, he does 100 revolutions though, then 370, then over 700. I'm guessing none of the writers can do a single push up as they know nothing about how the human body works. Not the worst movie ever but what is irritating is if they showed this to a kid in 9th grade who has worked out before, that kid could have done a quick 30 minute re-write that would have improved the story immensely. This film is just watchable, if that's why you make movies, congrats, you did the bare minimum.

This is listed as a horror film, but it could also be considered sci-fi.

It is placed somewhere in the future where a company has decided to "punish" their employees for less than stellar work performance with being drugged and kidnapped...and put into individual cells with a very old school wheel mill.

Each of these people wake up disoriented, and very frightened. Only to have darkness fall and the terrifying screams of what sounds like either torture or someone being killed come over the extremely high wall.

Maybe your next door neighbor will talk to you, maybe they won't. Maybe they will tell you the truth, maybe they won't. Because their life depends on doing at least one (or more) walks around the pushing mill to avoid TERMINATION.

And it's an open sky. So each day could be hot as heck, or lovely. But the job only gives you the same sandwich, chips, and one bottle of water...rain or shine.

And if you break the rules or talk back, there are consequences.

And those consequences can affect ALL of the employees in the arena (or just you, who knows?) And every single night someone gets violently, well, terminated. (Which by the way we never see,I liked that myself, old fashioned terror without blood n gore)

And our protagonist, who is primarily the only person we see throughout the whole film, has to live through this. And Lil Rel might come off as a comedy actor. But he killed it here.

And there were times I didn't know what he was going to choose to do. And that's unusual for a horror film. As so often characters are very much cut and paste.

I only took off a star for the few times it felt it was dragging. And the whole "dream sequences/memories" idea they went with. It felt so afternoon soap opera. But all in all, 9/10. I would love to see the employees revolt.