It takes far too long getting to the point and, once it delivers, Escape Room underwhelms. Prior to its ending, Escape Room is an unimaginative, boring horror movie. Escape Room Insults Its Audiences With Insipid Storytelling You’ll be in disbelief when the credits abruptly roll. In the absence of a clear antagonist and motive, Escape Room is utterly pointless. He says something about Christen ‘being responsible’ and ‘knowing’ and we get some quick edits to strange scenes never connected to the main narrative. There’s a distorted voice that hacks Christen’s payphone call to the police. Just who is the movie’s villain? After over an hour of heavy-handed red herrings, Wernick simply ends the movie. And the true mastermind releases Christen from a van parked in an empty street. His punishment – a small metal stake through his heart. But Tyler, believing Christen has orchestrated everything, chooses to save himself. Who knows? In Escape Room’s room big twist, Christen opts to save Tyler. If you make it to the end of Escape Room, Wernick has one final insult to add to injury. So is Christen really the mastermind behind the torture traps? After all, she’s the only one in the group held separately. As it turns out, Tyler had some indiscretions with Natasha, and Wernick spends much of the movie dropping hints that Christen knows. Our main couple, birthday boy Tyler and Christen, may be in trouble. You’ve got one couple that cant keep their hands off one another and a second couple (Natasha and Anderson) that share nothing but contempt. Throughout the movie, Wernick painstakingly maps out the dysfunctional relationships among its characters. If you make it to the end, Wernick has one final insult to add to injury. Escape Room Confuses ‘Twist’ Ending With Absolutely No Ending Unfortunately, the other death scenes are unimaginative and clumsily staged. No, it necessitates you accepting that two people could be so incredibly dumb. It doesn’t just require suspending disbelief. What you inevitably get is one sufficiently gross death scene that also happens to be extremely convoluted. Is there ultimately a payoff? In short, the answer is no. In contrast, Escape Room drags its feet while offering nothing in the way of mood or tension. Friday the 13th and Saw sequels knew what people were paying to see. Though there’s nothing wrong with plot and character development, Wernick’s movie lacks the substance to justify its plodding pace. … Escape Room drags its feet while offering nothing in the way of mood or tension. At some point, you may start to wonder if the movie’s intent is to torture you, not its characters. You’ll wait and you’ll wait and you’ll wait some more. Yes, this thriller spends an inexplicable amount of time building to its only real selling point. And then for the next 40 minutes or so, Escape Room treats you to pointless banter among its obnoxious characters. Still, it at least hints at some potentially gruesome fun. It’s a death scene that has no connection to the main story and feels ripped from just about any Saw sequel. Director Will Wernick – whose also guilty of sharing writing credits – kicks things off with a derivative, but at least promising prologue. Never has an hour and 20 minutes felt so long. Escape Room a Plodding, Dull ‘Saw’ Rip-Off With only one exit and one hour, they’re in for the fight of their lives. Now the friends realizes it’s not a game at all. Initially, it all seems to be part of an elaborate game. All six friends are drugged and later wake up trapped in separate rooms. After an unusually long limo ride, things take an even stranger turn. Girlfriend Christen has bought expensive tickets to an exclusive, and very mysterious, escape room. But his birthday gift is something unexpected. Six trendy, mid-20s LA hipsters gather at a fancy restaurant for friend Tylers birthday.
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