Escape Room (2017)
Six friends test their intelligence when an escape room they participate in takes a dark and twisted turn.
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I can only guess they didn't have enough money to shoot everything in the script as it felt like watching one of these kind of films with a dozen or so scenes edited out.The production values, photography and sets were pretty good for this but largely it seemed the writing let this film down.I watched all the way through expecting a plot of some kind to develop but it never really did.Early on a character is introduced and a big thing is made of them leaving, we never see or hear from them again, okay a red herring perhaps, but what spend five minutes of the film on it. Things go along pretty much in this fashion until the end credits.The puzzles were mostly not very puzzle like and the fact that the characters guessed and solved what some of them were at all didn't seem very realistic at all other than it being the only way to move the film along.The ending left several loose ends and was ultimately completely unfulfilling.
If you like puzzle movies with gore and mystery blend together, this is for you. This is similar to the "Cube" and other isolated escape from a confined place movies. We never get to know why it's happening to them. If this the start of a franchise, I'll skip my remarks about the lack of story. Movie got potential, I'd suggest it.
someone gets a birthday present, he's going to an escape room with 5 friends. But it turns out you will die if you do not solve the riddles. Standard movie without any plot. The introduction is just not fitting to the movie. The trailer is much more fun to watch than the actual movie.
This is "The game meets "Saw", but not in a good way. Characters are cardboard, no back story. The only true performance that merits attention is Natasha" she carries the movie. The lead did a semi good job making the audience "hate him" but doesn't have that "it" factor to be a lead. The beginning seemed like the writer didn't quite know how to start with the story, but seemed to pick it up (a tiny bit) toward the middle but get writers block at the conclusion. There is lee way for a sequel, but I escaped and I'm not going back.