It's so frustrating when you have a good puzzle, and you just can't solve it. This is how everyone involved in making this movie must be feeling right now.
Also, the elephant in the room: how frustrating when there are two movies with the same name and a similar setup and you find yourself watching the wrong one... :(
There is some good here, some (but by no means all) of the acting, the sets, the basic premise of the movie... unfortunately all if that is quickly lost under all the bad things... yes, I'm going to list some of them, don't worry ;)
First, the two biggest: all of the characters are almost immediately detestable. They're the kind of people that if they sat next to you in a bar or restaurant, you'd be annoyed. If you had relatives like this, you'd avoid them. If you worked with people like this, you'd be on Monster.com. This isn't helped by the script. At one point early on, during the dinner 'party' scene, I actually started to wonder if they were making it up as they went along...
The Escape Room itself is actually pretty cool. I've done a few, and this one had some cool puzzles that would definitely work well.
Aaaaaaand then people start dying. Cool? No. Not cool. Very uncool in fact. Plothole number one is 'what was stopping everyone going into the same room to solve the crossword puzzle'? Would have been a short movie, I guess that's the answer. As the totally hatable people start to get picked off, you're left wondering why. Aside from the first death, nobody actually has to die, yet the final 'puzzle' relies on only one person making it to that stage... there is a highly contrived feel to all of the deaths, almost like the puzzles in a real escape room, oddly.
And when Natasha is left with her hand in the bear (suitably vague to avoid spoiling it), you're left wondering why they didn't use the cuffs to pull the lever, or indeed if such an injury could or did kill her...
Finally, the ending. Some confusing scenes edited together in a hurry, Odd flashbacks of sex games that aren't connected to the rest of he story (or are they?), and our 'protagonist' (was she? Can we call her that?) being set free because 'nobody will believe her story'...
I sense that the budget was short a few thousand and we're left with half a movie.
They tease a sequel here. They absolutely shouldn't do that.
Also, the elephant in the room: how frustrating when there are two movies with the same name and a similar setup and you find yourself watching the wrong one... :(
There is some good here, some (but by no means all) of the acting, the sets, the basic premise of the movie... unfortunately all if that is quickly lost under all the bad things... yes, I'm going to list some of them, don't worry ;)
First, the two biggest: all of the characters are almost immediately detestable. They're the kind of people that if they sat next to you in a bar or restaurant, you'd be annoyed. If you had relatives like this, you'd avoid them. If you worked with people like this, you'd be on Monster.com. This isn't helped by the script. At one point early on, during the dinner 'party' scene, I actually started to wonder if they were making it up as they went along...
The Escape Room itself is actually pretty cool. I've done a few, and this one had some cool puzzles that would definitely work well.
Aaaaaaand then people start dying. Cool? No. Not cool. Very uncool in fact. Plothole number one is 'what was stopping everyone going into the same room to solve the crossword puzzle'? Would have been a short movie, I guess that's the answer. As the totally hatable people start to get picked off, you're left wondering why. Aside from the first death, nobody actually has to die, yet the final 'puzzle' relies on only one person making it to that stage... there is a highly contrived feel to all of the deaths, almost like the puzzles in a real escape room, oddly.
And when Natasha is left with her hand in the bear (suitably vague to avoid spoiling it), you're left wondering why they didn't use the cuffs to pull the lever, or indeed if such an injury could or did kill her...
Finally, the ending. Some confusing scenes edited together in a hurry, Odd flashbacks of sex games that aren't connected to the rest of he story (or are they?), and our 'protagonist' (was she? Can we call her that?) being set free because 'nobody will believe her story'...
I sense that the budget was short a few thousand and we're left with half a movie.
They tease a sequel here. They absolutely shouldn't do that.