What happens on that fucking boat!

I watched a movie last night that has almost as many plot holes as Gothika. It's a spanish thriller called 'La Habitación de Fermat', or Fermat's Room in English.

It is the story of four maths geniuses who solve a riddle sent to them and get invited to an evening of mathematic exploration, where they are told they are going to solve one of the world's greatest enigmas. They soon find out they are being killed, as the room is shrinking, and will continue to shrink unless they answer riddles that are sent to them via text message. I first read about it in Empire about 2 or 3 months ago, and I immediately started looking for it, as it sounded rather good. How wrong I was! And BEWARE: MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!

The four people in the room consist of an old man contemplating suicide, a young boy genius, a sexy girl who you don't learn anything about, and an inventor. Turns out, SURPRISE SURPRISE, they are all connected in some ways, and some are even connected to the man they are invited there by, who calls himself Fermat.

I'm gonna rant a bit, and I might ruin the film, so please just don't read if you think you might enjoy the film (ie you're Sloth from the Goonies, or a 12 year old who hasn't seen a David Fincher movie yet),

The connections include the following:

• The girl and boy genius used to be a couple, and they start making out pretty fast, but refuse to acknowledge each other or say their real names.
• The girl and the old man go to crazy chess parties on boats together after meeting on the internet
• The inventor ran over Fermat's daughter and he believes thats why he's being killed.
• The boy and the old man are connected as they both solved Goldbach's Conjecture, only the boy genius was lying and sabotaged his presentation on it, which the girl earlier admits to sabotaging, but he says it was he himself so PLOT HOLE.

I really want to write the end, but it's so long-winded and full of plot-holes that it'd be as boring to read as the film was to watch. Basically, the end is 'a twist' but then you realise that all the 'twists' they discover earlier on in the film are rendered completely pointless, and wholly IMPOSSIBLE.

I still reckon it's worth a watch, it is good in parts, and the riddles are fun to solve, just ignore it's attempts at intelligence (kinda like Cube). The sexy lady is also easy on the eye. It probably won't get a cinematic release over here, it's nearly a year old, but it might pop up in your local arthouse at some point.