I feel that they are hard done by the editing. The actors are not especially gifted, and add little more to the roles that are written. This is the level of character development we get for everyone, and everyone keeps telling each other what they’re one trait is. They’re so horny they don’t even notice that they’re being bathed in acid fog and are so busy making out that they don’t notice that they’re LITERALLY melting. These characters are horny, you see, and just want to have sex, talk about sex and tell everyone about the sex they have. Speaking of the horny couple with the chastity belt, this is their only personality trait and they have to share it between them. There’s no clues to be found, but fortunately the characters deduce that you have to put in words to do with sex until it unlocks. One of the opening puzzles is a combination lock on a chastity belt. A character decides that since the wires are all primary colours, they need to be grouped together thusly. For example, there’s a bunch of wires of different colours. Every one of these puzzles is one clue = one solution. You would expect a challenging Escape Room to link a couple of clues and puzzles together to form a larger solution. Unfortunately, the puzzles are pretty dumb. Still, if it’s got some fun puzzles and twists then we’re on board for the ride. This one looks like a pretty standard Escape Room. We can’t avoid comparing Escape Room to Escape Room, and the later movie is known for it’s incredible set design and building. After a painful amount of time establishing these characters, they all get blindfolded and let into the Escape Room experience they’ve been invited to participate in. We get our main character, his girlfriend and their friends, none of whom are likeable. It then takes a very, very long time for the story to start out. Then there’s a very long opening credits sequence with a voice over of someone being tortured for not solving the world’s most well known riddles. I guess that’s not a surprise though, because they opened the movie with this unexpected turn. With that said and done, it takes about an hour before the Escape Room of the movie’s main plot reveals itself to be deadly. We open with a random guy getting killed in an Escape Room, presumably to set the stakes for the movie to come.

This is all very circular, because the Escape Room craze was arguably kicked off by the movie Saw. Yeah, someone was onto the whole gimmick earlier. I was browsing online and I happened across a previous movie called Escape Room and the pictures didn’t look right. Review: Did you know there was an Escape Room movie in 2017? Not the one with Deborah Ann Woll that was made by Adam Robitel and got a sequel.

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