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‘Exit 8’ Review: Genki Kawamura’s Existential Doom Loop Nails The Video Game Adaptation Genki Kawamura’s “Exit 8,” adapted from a video game developed by Kotake Create, is the rare film that succeeds by embracing rather than eschewing its roots in the medium. In critical parlance, describing a movie as akin to a video game usually amounts to a term of derision. Scorn runs through the perverse, voyeuristic pleasure of first-person shooting or the unchoreographed melee of an action sequence. But Kawamura and co-writer Kentaro Hirase demonstrate how an empathetic, tightly controlled work of cinema need not cast off its origins in a role-playing exercise. Continue reading ‘Exit 8’ Review: Genki Kawamura’s Existential Doom Loop Nails The Video Game Adaptation at The Playlist. http://dlvr.it/TRwG5m