Escape Room

Columbia Pictures Corporation | Release Date: January 4, 2019

7.5	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 313 Ratings

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ShanrulzOct 14, 2020

Do Not watch! The first half of the movie lures you in and after the end you’ll regret watching it. Lazy and uninspired. Don’t let them rob you of your precious time.

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

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polentoxFeb 16, 2019

Way too much loose ends, very few plot twists and the riddles throughout the film are not viewer friendly at all, so we cant speculate the answers. All of this leads to a boring movie.

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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roastbirdJan 19, 2019

1. Copycat of many movie, SAW+CUBE most likely.
2. MOST players died in accidents, if you are calling this escape room, they should die because of playing it wrong or etc.
3. Always sick rich **** behind everything, come on it is 2019.

3 of 5 users found this helpful32

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annbdFeb 12, 2019

'Escape room - the child version of 'Saw', come with your kids fella.' This.. this was horrible. Can't believe my boyfriend rate this crap 7/10 and he is the critical one. I had high expectations, but it turns out to be big fail. Spoiling in'Escape room - the child version of 'Saw', come with your kids fella.' This.. this was horrible. Can't believe my boyfriend rate this crap 7/10 and he is the critical one. I had high expectations, but it turns out to be big fail. Spoiling in the first seconds, stupid dialogues, boring characters, cliche plot story and so on. Craaaaaap.… Expand

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

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theirrelephantsJan 8, 2019

If you like crappy saw ripoffs (not that SAW was good to begin with), you'll love this movie.

2 of 7 users found this helpful25

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corinthiansJan 4, 2019

This movie is so boring and predictable. Another waste of time, this kind of movie always disappoints.

3 of 11 users found this helpful38

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timaoJan 4, 2019

Awful,stupid,cheap,unfrighten,not interesting,horrible that's how I can call Escape Room.

2 of 10 users found this helpful28

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moviecritic68Jan 16, 2019

About 10 minutes into the movie I was looking for a clue on how to escape the theater. You could hear the sarcastic chuckles from the few who attended wondering why they were still in their seats. (Another red flag - sparse audience) I'mAbout 10 minutes into the movie I was looking for a clue on how to escape the theater. You could hear the sarcastic chuckles from the few who attended wondering why they were still in their seats. (Another red flag - sparse audience) I'm bitterly disappointed with some of the misleading user scores from some of the people I rely on. Amateur acting mixed in with a poorly written script. SAVE YOUR MONEY & TIME… Expand

0 of 40 users found this helpful040

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hnestlyontheslyOct 7, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Escape Room attempts to capitalize on the apparently wild popularity of America’s new “escape room” pastime. (I stand firm in my opinion that the film would be much improved if there were an unofficial fifteen minute intermission in which the film abruptly cuts out and the lights come up and the exits are blocked, but for whatever reason, the film insists on being watched as its main draw.) It’s almost not worth mentioning the obvious line about how the movie itself is a play on its own name. It isn’t even the first escape room movie in the last few years. The trailer had some lovely visuals, so I recommend if you want to see the movie, you return to the trailer and loop that a few times.

Taylor Russell, of Netflix’s Lost in Space fame, Logan Miller (who’s been on a bit of a hot streak until this film, it seems), and the others are actually kind of brilliant as an ensemble cast. Deborah Ann Woll who seems like maybe the biggest draw in some respects from her time on True Blood is a Rorschach of fan-service and feminist badassery, serving two crass masters effortlessly. Despite a startlingly dumb premise and an overly long follow through–why do the rooms grow progressively more and more boring as they proceed?–the cast bravely struggles onward. Looking at the writing crew for this one, it seems clear that Maria Melnik, current staff writer for Gaiman’s American Gods adaptation for Starz, is not to blame, which leaves one Bragi Schut holding the bag. It’s so seldom that we can find a patient zero for such criminally lazy writing, so we should rejoice a little bit in the ease with which that mystery was dispatched.

Clearly what would’ve made this movie better is if they had stuck more closely to the premise of their trailer and either 1) pulled a Soderbergh and kept their cards close until a big twist and reveal at the end when we see how the players actually outsmarted the Gamesmaster or 2) the movie should have shifted at the halfway point, as it appeared it would before fizzling out and then going completely bonkers and then flashing forward helpfully by three months, toward giving the players more agency as they try to stay a few steps ahead of the game design itself, pulling double duty as they are forced to solve the rooms while also deceiving their captors. That second game, of returning control of the situation to the victims is a classic type of empowerment that saved the genre from tired stereotypes and clichéd plots long ago (think Red Eye, Panic Room, the recent sequel to Halloween, and, to a different extent, the turn in It Follows).

Friend and I saw this instead of the advanced screening of Alita: Battle Angel because there was too much traffic to make it to SF in time. It was probably better than gouging our eyes out with sea salts or sucking on knives, but only just.… Expand

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sproutpodJul 15, 2021

This seems to be designed as a throwaway movie. I was the only person in the 300-seat theater on a Thursday night, so I wasn't disturbing anyone by playing on my phone for half the movie. I didn't care about any of the characters or theThis seems to be designed as a throwaway movie. I was the only person in the 300-seat theater on a Thursday night, so I wasn't disturbing anyone by playing on my phone for half the movie. I didn't care about any of the characters or the puzzles. I had hoped that it was at least a popcorn movie. Avoid it. Not even worth it if you have a free pass.… Expand

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