2 Bullet Solution
2021 · 4m
Directed by Matt Mullins
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
Three test subjects wake in a sealed chamber that is slowly filling with fatal gas, with three guns and only two bullets between them. Told that the survivor will be released, they turn on each other as the clock runs down.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A locked-room game-theory nightmare that actually *earns* its provocation—no moralizing, no rescue, just three people doing what the math demands. Most scouts would call it nihilistic trash; it's the kind of film that makes you defend it at parties and realize you're wrong halfway through.
Mullins leans into the Kubrickian cold precision of the premise, though the film's formal restraint occasionally flattens what could have been a more layered chamber study—the debt to *Rope* and *Carnage* is visible, but the execution stays too locked in its own mechanism to break through to something new.
The entire film hinges on a single choice: keeping the camera static and letting the actors' positioning and eye contact do the murder, rather than cutting away or staging melodrama—it's a restraint decision that transforms a B-movie premise into something genuinely unsettling.
Reviews
Mind Matters framed it as a philosophical dilemma: three subjects, two bullets, one survivor, noting the unrealistic fight may itself be a clue to what is really happening.