![]() ![]() Their quirky designs are full of hints and red herrings and would probably be wonderful to explore in person, if you didn’t mind getting liquified in acid for touching the wrong prop. The “Escape Room” movies would be nothing without stellar production design and art direction, so kudos to Edward Thomas, Mark Walker, and Cecelia van Straaten (“Monster Hunter”) and their excellent crews for knocking it out of the park once again. The movie audience, Robitel presumably (perhaps optimistically) theorizes, is here to see them escape, and so we have to care about these people when they’re alive, not just when they’re about to be suffocated. It’s the villains of these movies who are here to watch these people die. Zoey is driven by the trauma of watching decent human beings die for no reason, not the pursuit of vengeance or mayhem. Robitel’s film isn’t cruel enough to claim that human life has no value. It’s that balance of extremely improbable set pieces and simple, baseline humanity that makes “Escape Room” and “Tournament of Champions” function so efficiently as B-movie thrillers. ‘Doctor Strange’ Sequel ‘Wouldn’t Make Sense’ Without ‘WandaVision,’ Elizabeth Olsen Says Each new room is implausible yet impeccable few, if any, of the escape rooms in “Tournament of Champions” could conceivably have been constructed underneath a major metropolitan city without someone asking questions about openings on the construction crew or why the laws of physics are being broken so brazenly today. There’s an electrified subway car with a killer game of spellcheck, a hopscotch art-deco laser bank heist, a beachside getaway that might become a permanent vacation, and several other surprises besides. The clues lead Zoey and Ben to a mysterious building in New York City, but strange developments take them instead into a subway car which quickly derails, and sends them - and a small group of strangers, each of whom having already survived another escape room - into a brand-new sightseeing tour of whatever absurdly imaginative “escape rooms” the Minos Corporation (i.e., the sextet of screenwriters) have concocted this time. Some time has passed, and Zoey remains obsessed with proving that the Minos Corporation is real, dragging Ben along with her on a road trip to collect evidence. Afterwards, naturally, nobody believes their story. At the end there was supposed to be only one survivor, but Zoey (Taylor Russell, “Waves”) finds a way to think outside the box, saving not just herself, but also Ben (Logan Miller, “We Summon the Darkness”). Each room they encountered had a different visual theme, and only by solving tricky clues could the heroes escape with their lives. The original “Escape Room” saw a group of people drawn into a game constructed by the Minos Corporation. ‘Escape Room’ Film Review: Thriller Commits to Gimmick With Style and Energy ![]()
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