To be honest, we didn’t enjoy ‘Escape Room’. It’s horror, but we weren’t scared. Largely predictable, we found ‘Escape Room’ to be neither frightful nor exciting. Maybe we’ve become numb as a result of seeing just too many horror movies in our time. Then maybe ‘Escape Room’ just isn’t for veterans. We don’t know which it is.
What we do know; is that we were the odd ones out in an audience of approximately forty people. And everyone else was screaming their heads off. Unlike us, they seemed to have had something akin to near death experiences. Try as hard as we may, we just couldn’t find the fright. We “Mildly recommend” it only because it killed everybody else. For us, ‘Escape Room’ is child’s play.
Synopsis: Six adventurous strangers travel to a mysterious building to experience the escape room — a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles to win $10,000. What starts out as seemingly innocent fun soon turns into a living nightmare as the four men and two women discover each room is an elaborate trap that’s part of a sadistic game of life or death.
Starring: Taylor Russel, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani.