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Escape Room fails to unlock much of the potential in its premise, but what's left is still tense and thrilling enough to offer a passing diversion for suspense fans. Read critic reviews
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Movie Info
Six adventurous strangers travel to a mysterious building to experience the escape room -- a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles to win $10,000. What starts out as seemingly innocent fun soon turns into a living nightmare as the four men and two women discover each room is an elaborate trap that's part of a sadistic game of life or death.
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Rating: PG-13 (Some Suggestive Material|Language|Terror/Perilous Action|Violence)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: Adam Robitel
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Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Ori Marmur
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Writer: Bragi Schut, Maria Melnik
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $57.0M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
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Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Original Film
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Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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Critic Reviews for Escape Room
Audience Reviews for Escape Room
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Full of mystery and intrigue, Escape Room is exciting thriller. When six strangers accept an invitation to participate in an escape room challenge they end up getting more than they bargained for; as the rooms soon turn deadly, changing the challenge into a fight for survival. The production designs for the rooms are incredible, creating really intricate and detailed traps. And the performances are pretty good too. However, the film kind of falls apart in the last act; which starts setting up a sequel and gives an unnecessary peak at the shadow organization behind the escape room. Still, the action scenes are intense and frightening, and the mystery of who the characters are and what has brought them together is compelling. While it has some flaws, Escape Room is a captivating horror film.
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If you've ever been looking for a PG-13 Saw movie, then Escape Room might just be the film for you. It follows a group of strangers who have been invited to a next-level escape room, one of those group challenges where people work as a team to solve a series of puzzles to "escape" from a locked room with a variety of dangers. The movie version kicks things up by making the Escape Room essentially Cube, filled with a series of elaborate death traps that pick off our characters outlandish room by outlandish room. The enjoyment of the movie is the curiosity of the rooms and the various challenges. The production design is inventive and impressive for its minor budget. The puzzles aren't exactly things that an audience can solve in the moment. They mostly involve clues that won't make sense because we can't explore the room, so it's just waiting for characters to solve things and make connections. The fun doesn't come from the puzzles but more what the rooms will do next. The assorted characters have a personal connection that is flimsy and leads to a late reveal of who is responsible for this wicked game. The movie is fun as you're watching it as long as you accept that little will make sense. Once it extends beyond the rooms and tries building a mythology and a conspiracy behind the rooms, that's where Escape Room starts to fall apart. It's a relatively minor but enjoyable thriller that lives in the moment and, in the future, should find more time to spend in the rooms and the crazy challenges. Much like The Maze Runner, once the characters are outside the maze, I just don't care. It works enough that I wouldn't mind more, if the filmmakers get their priorities right. Nate's Grade: B-
nathan z Super Reviewer -
Escape Room feels like watching part 3 or 4 of a franchise where everyone starts noting the formula and idea has lost its edge. The idea is interesting and there's some clever twists and turns. This is really a more PG version of Saw with no moral compass. Ultimately, the movie went too big out of the gate. The story was way too elbaorte and far too much was revealed about the orchestrators of this torture world. Saw was brilliant because of what it pulled off in a single room. Escape Room fast forwards past the opening introductions to a good premise into the overblown attempts to keep it relevant. A pity, because it will very much limit future sequels, perhaps they could go with prequels to a simpler time and less intricate traps. The actors did a reasonable job in their setting, rising above mere fodder for the machine. The sound track added to the film and the visuals were enjoyable rather than distracting. Overall a neat premise but really held back by missteps in scope and over explanation. Audiences do not need much why with this type of premise, it's all in the how.
Shane S Super Reviewer -
I think this is about the third escape room based horror movie I've seen, and I'm preeeeeeetty sure it's the best one?
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