With the concept of a dystopian gladiator arena run by a blood thirsty ambitious man that Kidnaps people to use them as fighter that co-exists with the normal world, "The Waiting room" script is strong, refreshing and promising as it tends to draw in the reader, but by the end we just don't care enough.We hooked as soon as the main character is kidnapped and releases his predicament of survival of the fittest. The center of the story is established to be about survival and the things the characters are willing to do for it, it is done as naturally as possible and it doesn't stray from it. We are completely invested in the world that has been created by the writer, but a little detail on how it co-exists with the normal world undetected would have gone a long way.
The only major problem with the script is that we are not invested in the characters, we don't find ourselves rooting for any character in particular, like Marcus or Damien. Is Marcus going to make it or Is Damien gonna be the underdog that everyone comes to love, this is not something that is going on in our head. Damien's back story was half baked it was as though he was given a back story just for the sake of it. We are just not invested in the characters to root for them, the only character that kind of intrigues us is the czar of the carnival Caesar with his black eye and yellow teeth, just like the characters we couldn't careless about their dialogue (again except for Caesar's). Lot of foul language is used which makes it feel forced, everyone like a character swearing but it has to be well placed some instance of it feeling forced would be when Damien says "Rocky looking Fuck" or "Suck a dick".
As we are not invested in the characters the climax is not as impactful as it should have been. Every other aspect of the script was great, the progression was natural every characters motive was clear "Survival", the actions of the participants are acceptable and justified in the context. Exploration of both the world and the characters would have being epic. All in all the script was good, the concept was excellent, the world established was excellent, characters were not boring and the dialogues could use some brushing up.
