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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.
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Escape Room is not anything to get terribly excited about. But where suspense is concerned, the premise works: even when the trajectory of the story is easy to predict, there's no knowing what may be hidden behind any specific locked door. Feb 6, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Escape Room is not anything to get terribly excited about. But where suspense is concerned, the premise works: even when the trajectory of the story is easy to predict, there's no knowing what may be hidden behind any specific locked door.
Jake Wilson
There is some enthusiasm on display at the outset...but the film, possibly prefiguring the response of any rational audience, is soon enervated by its own tiresome premise. Feb 1, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
There is some enthusiasm on display at the outset...but the film, possibly prefiguring the response of any rational audience, is soon enervated by its own tiresome premise.
Kevin Maher
Nifty, nasty high-concept horror, with dabs of Saw and Final Destination. Jan 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Nifty, nasty high-concept horror, with dabs of Saw and Final Destination.
Peter Bradshaw
A welcome addition to the small subgenre of horror films where people don't act stupidly under extreme duress. Jan 21, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A welcome addition to the small subgenre of horror films where people don't act stupidly under extreme duress.
David Hughes
A cutthroat little thriller that's surely more fun than most of the riddle-solving lock-ins currently springing up around the country. Jan 6, 2019 | Full Review…
A cutthroat little thriller that's surely more fun than most of the riddle-solving lock-ins currently springing up around the country.
John DeFore
During the final half hour, everything that's compelling about this low-budget thriller collapses in a miasma of idiocy. Jan 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
During the final half hour, everything that's compelling about this low-budget thriller collapses in a miasma of idiocy.
James Berardinelli
It's not the smartest movie you'll ever watch, but if you're a fan of the horror-thriller genre, this film will keep you fairly entertained even if it won't quite dazzle you with its inventiveness. Mar 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's not the smartest movie you'll ever watch, but if you're a fan of the horror-thriller genre, this film will keep you fairly entertained even if it won't quite dazzle you with its inventiveness.
Sameen Amer
The script is a glaring insufficiency at the time of making the viewer participate in the film's tracks, dilemmas and resolutions, simply capricious. [Full Review in Spanish] Mar 18, 2019 | Full Review…
The script is a glaring insufficiency at the time of making the viewer participate in the film's tracks, dilemmas and resolutions, simply capricious. [Full Review in Spanish]
Javier Ocaña
Escape Room manages to lock into current social trends and exploits the anxiety that could potentially surround them, delivering a largely exhilarating ride that feels quite different within its genre. Mar 17, 2019 | Full Review…
Escape Room manages to lock into current social trends and exploits the anxiety that could potentially surround them, delivering a largely exhilarating ride that feels quite different within its genre.
Chloe Leeson
A decaffeinated cross 'Saw.' [Full Review in Spanish] Mar 13, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
A decaffeinated cross 'Saw.' [Full Review in Spanish]
Mikel Zorrilla
Escape Room picks up Saw's baton and adds action and adrenaline. [Full review in Spanish] Mar 12, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Escape Room picks up Saw's baton and adds action and adrenaline. [Full review in Spanish]
Santiago Alverú
Is Escape Room a perfect film? Hardly, but it delivers on what a thriller should deliver on. Feb 28, 2019 | Full Review…
Is Escape Room a perfect film? Hardly, but it delivers on what a thriller should deliver on.
Patrick Crossen
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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