Crappy film

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Interesting premise, and yes, this is a rip-off of Saw/Jigsaw, but not very well-executed.Firstly, there is very little character development. The puzzles themselves are fairly clever, but not really explained and no-trial and error, the villain is almost non-existent, and the acting is gruelling. Starts off with a completely unrelated character dying at the hands of a puzzle. No rationale at all as to what he was supposed to do, or why. Next, a bunch of pretentious 'hipster' friends are introduced at a birthday party in a swanky restaurant. 6 characters go to the escape room, one character goes off and does something else....and that is her only role in the movie. Not one of the remaining characters gives the viewer any reason to root for them. They all appear to be uppity and plastic. Not one has any good or even bad quality. They're all just lame. Fast forward to the actual escape room. There are a few neat puzzles that probably would be good in a real escape room, but some too far-fetched or impossible. A few puzzles are solved by some crazy leaps of logic by the group (padlock combination 'HEAD"? really?), and while the viewer is partly engaged on some level in the solving process, but the solutions are glossed over, with zero exposition. The movie ambles along like this until the final 20 minutes, then it seems to actually realise it needs to end. Everything is rushed, and loads of loose ends are left. ...and at no point do we get to see the protagonist, or have a good reason for the murderous setup. At least in Saw, we had a villain, a few people who we either rooted for, or despised, some gruesomely cunning contraptions and a few twists, no matter how hokey or contrived they might have been. This film has very dreary lackluster characters with little interplay between them, and an almost-absent villain, with no raison d'etre. There are several better ways to have dealt with this movie, or how to end effectively. For a start, at the beginning of the 'Game' itself, the main guy tries the exit door. It opens. He flicks a switch on, and suddenly the door is locked. How about having a revelation later on that he could have unlocked the door again simply by switching off the light? - What about making more of a statement about the hipsters' derision of the homeless, or the caged girl being revealed as the 'protagonist', because her boyfriend cheated on her....clued in to the line of "I never cheat' while they are in the limo?

I'll give it 2 because the idea is good, however, execution is amateur work, acting is super bad, sometimes lifeless, sometimes over-overreacting. some of the overreacting is because of how the characters are written. Too many cliches too basic and expected story and characters.

And we always as horror geeks are confronted with flicks that pick in on major succes flicks. Jigsaw (2017) was a hit so here it is, the rip-off Escape Room. Dace it, there isn't a freak in it like jigsaw but it's the same story without him, try to escape the room.The opening scene in the desert said enough for me, way too long. And that's what this flick does. Almost all scene's are to long. At the shop, way too long. So 40 minutes into the flick it's the moment the terror comes in. And I was thinking, please die because I never got a bond with the characters. They do talk about some classic horror flicks and that was the best in this turkey. Just watch some points in this flick. They are all scared of a guy in the room but he doesn't move, when he does move no-one cares, really?? I wish the door would open en jigsaw came in, do I need to say more? Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

There are two films out with the same title. The other film is directed by Peter Dukes and involves a more traditional "escape room." Three couples who know each other very well decide they are going to enjoy an upscale escape room. Christen (Elizabeth Hower) is separated from the group who are having fun solving puzzles that tended to be tougher than most escape rooms. And then the fun and games stop and they realize they are risking their lives.The film had some interesting moments watching them solve the puzzles. The production needed another scene or two to establish character and introduce multiple motives and decent back story. DVD includes bloopers, deleted scenes, director commentary.Guide F-word and Nudity (Elizabeth Hower)