Fermat's Room taps into the popular perception of the obsessive mathematical genius (see A Beautiful Mind), driven into a mania by the hidden truth behind the numbers and liable to form deadly rivalries with their counterparts in the quest for perfection. Much like another group whose work the layperson doesn't really understand, then, i.e. composers.Four minds are invited by a man hiding behind the pseudonym of Fermat to a deserted farmhouse with the challenge of solving the greatest of conundrums. This promises a great deal, as they find themselves locked in a room with the power to kill them unless they continue cracking a succession of timed riddles.
Except that the link to the actual Fermat is utterly spurious: the makers cop out swiftly at this point in the script and instead present a series of brainteasers familiar from puzzlebooks with no particular relevance to mathematics. Having flaunted the prospect of an intellectual work-out, and then at least the visceral kick of an entrapment horror piece like Cube, they deliver neither.
5/10
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