Director: Adam Robitol
Genre: Action/
Thriller/ Horror
Runtime: 96
minutes
Year:
2019
Starring: Taylor
Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll, Nik Dodani,
Yorick van Wageningen, Cornelius Geaney Jr., Russel Crous, Bart Fouche, Jessica
Sutton, Paul Hampshire, Vera Tindale, Kenneth Fok
Description: Six strangers
find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to
survive.
Review: Escape rooms are a phenomenon. Hollywood is quick to puck up on fads and
originality is not that important in the film industry.
In this film, six strangers
meet in an escape room. They have all received a mysterious invitation. The tempting
sum if $10,000 won over all of them to accept the invitation, even not knowing anything
beforehand. Soon the participants discover that something is off and the game
is literally deadly. Only by working together can they survive the game. Yet
only one person can win the cash prize.
Director Adam Robitel has a
lot of cool ideas. The escape rooms are well-thought through and look pretty
amazing. He doesn’t take enough time to work them out. He makes an attempt to flesh
out his characters, but does this so fleetingly that this attempt fails. Why should
you care about these characters? More time and a slightly less hectic pace
would have done this film good.
The again, time was put into
building a franchise, as Robitel makes no secret of his desire to create
multiple volumes around this concept. There are a lot of loose ends that hint
at more sequels. And they will happen because of the popularity of the genre, not
the quality of the film.
“Escape Room” does look good
and is entertaining. But overall the movie is very rushed and you don’t care
about the characters.
Rating: 2,5
/ 5
