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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critic Consensus: 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.
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All Critics (126) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (66)
Nifty, nasty high-concept horror, with dabs of Saw and Final Destination.
A welcome addition to the small subgenre of horror films where people don't act stupidly under extreme duress.
A cutthroat little thriller that's surely more fun than most of the riddle-solving lock-ins currently springing up around the country.
During the final half hour, everything that's compelling about this low-budget thriller collapses in a miasma of idiocy.
It's like the filmmakers themselves were locked in an escape room with no way out. At least, in the end, it's true to the film's premise. "Escape Room" is trapped.
It was inevitable that "Escape Room" would be a bad movie.
The superb, stranglehold direction of Adam Robitel draws you in early and never lets go, even after you think things have been resolved...a prime example of the economics of the horror genre. Serve the genre's fanbase and the world is yours.
Escape Room manages to deliver even less than it offers, and with an already low bar, the exciting design and good performances cannot salvage this messy horror.
The story of Escape Room wears out due to the constant twists and its obsession with surprising with each death. [Full Review in Spanish]
The film leaves too many loose ends in hopes of getting our wallets indefinitely. [Full Review in Spanish]
The filmmaker doesn't take advantage of his captive audience, locked in a dark room, and requires only a passive presence. [Full review in Spanish]
The film goes all to hell with an explanation so inanely preposterous that it would have been much better off if it had not bothered with an explanation at all.
Anyone who has ever seen Cube or Saw will quickly notice how unoriginal, derivative and plain dumb this movie is - only adapted to the modern "escape games" fever but barely managing to be fun with a series of lame traps and silly revelations that don't really matter.
Super Reviewer
Though I haven't seen Vincenzo Natali's 1997 film, Cube, I have seen about thirty-two Saw movies and, in all honesty, could take or leave a PG-13 version of those movies that decided to utilize that same premise while also capitalizing on the recent fad of going with your friends to an "escape room" and seeing if you can figure out the clues in enough time to, well...escape. It's a nice little riff writer/director Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key) has come up with, sure, but he's essentially re-contextualized that aforementioned Natali picture for modern audiences as the synopsis for Cube is surprisingly accurate for Robitel's Escape Room. "Six complete strangers of widely varying personality types are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps." Change that "involuntarily" to "voluntarily" and you have yourself a whole new movie. Despite the glaring similarities between itself and a number of other subgenre peers though, Escape Room still manages to make itself feel fresh in ways that emphasize the journey rather than leave it all up to the destination. Escape Room doesn't necessarily improve upon any of these well-worn tropes, but it isn't a completely wasteful take on the premise either; it doesn't re-invent the wheel, but it re-designs it to the extent a wheel can be re-designed. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.com
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