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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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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.
A sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama.
A tame version of Saw aimed at a younger crowd. It's capable of providing thrills while lacking an original concept. [Full Review in Spanish]
It's a fairly intriguing premise that is, at the outset, employed to better-than-expected effect by filmmaker Adam Robitel...
"THAT IS NOT, IN FACT, A TWIST! THAT IS IN POINT OF FACT LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF A PLOT TWIST - IT'S AN UN-TWIST! A PLOT-STRAIGHTENING!"
It's an incredibly watchable and mostly satisfying experience, although it's one that you'll probably forget about four or five hours after you leave the theater.
Its complete and utter lack of ever taking itself or its characters seriously is the film's major saving grace. While this all makes it quite fun, it still doesn't make it any good.
I felt that this film from Adam Robitel was a lot better than his other films like Insidious: The Last Key.
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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