Logan Miller plays Ben, a grocery stock-boy who is burned out and not allowed to work the more lucrative job at the front counter of that store. He’s a power investor, who oozes confidence, charisma and cunning. We have the introverted and brilliant college student Zoe (Taylor Russell), who desperately wants to share her love of scientific theories with anyone, but her though processes are far beyond normal comprehension that she just sounds like she’s babbling nonsense.
We then spin back three days, and we get a number of introductions to our characters who are about to run the gauntlet. The player is in a frenzied panic, but still manages to piece together a solution as the walls close in for the coup de grace. We are introduced to the plot, with a riveting sequence in which one of the primary characters in the film is caught in a room being crushed like the trash compactor in Star Wars.
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This escape room appears that it had the backing of Sony, as the movie itself is. Your average escape room is a low-budget affair, usually set up in half-vacant shopping malls or defunct Toy-R-Us setups. Not only is it deadly, but it looks like it cost millions of dollars to build. Trust me, you will never see real Escape Rooms like this one. Not a lot of special effects, but there was a ton of cool set design put to this production. This, however, is a slickly done modestly priced studio outing. There is a more conventional stalker-ish movie that was released in 2017, which came and went with no fanfare. This is the second movie, called Escape Room to be released. I’ve done five Escape Rooms, and each one was a blast. I don’t yet want to call Escape Rooms a Fad, but give them ten years and we’ll see if this trend will be linked to things like the motorized razor scooter and VR headsets as things “of the era.” I actually think, like the astronomical rise in the popularity of board games, people like the social puzzle that they can solve together. It was inevitable that a horror film was going to be made of this new form of entertainment. I am a fan of escape rooms, the pop-up entertainment wonder that has sprung up across the country, pitting a group of people, locked in a room (or rooms) and forcing them to find clues out of the puzzle box that they are trapped in, and get out before the time runs out. Here’s your first major Horror release of 2019, Escape Room: a tricky, well-paced dungeon crawl of a film, and guess what? It’s pretty good.
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