ESCAPE ROOM – “There’s no escaping its PG horror fun”

(l to r) Jay Ellis, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller and Tyler Labine star in ESCAPE ROOM.

RATING

DIRECTOR

Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key – 2018)

STARRING

SYNOPSIS

Six adventurous strangers travel to a mysterious building to experience an escape room -- a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles to win a large cash prize The four men and two women soon discover each room is an elaborate trap that's part of a sadistic game of life or death.

REVIEW SUMMARY

Escape Room delivers jussssst enough tension to move the needle past the “ho-hum horror” mark. As advertised, you get to see people attempt to get out of a variety of escape room death traps. And what can I say, it’s all very entertaining! But lets call a spade a spade: this is a total rip-off of the SAW movies (I almost half expected to see ‘ol Jigsaw himself pop out at certain points). Lucky for us, this movie is actually better than the previous 5 or so Saw film instalments. They kinda do Saw better than Saw. The escape room scenarios we get are actually quite inventive, but unfortunately the characters "participating" in them are as 1 dimensional as you’d expect. Things like dialogue and plot developments are also weak, BUTTT there is no escaping the PG horror fun inside this film!

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