ESCAPE ROOM 2019 MOVIE

After unlocking the box, a card pops up and instructs them to arrive at a downtown high-rise to take part in the most sophisticated escape room adventure imaginable. Basically, six random people in Chicago receive a personalized card, with a message, and a small box. There isn’t much of a story here, truth be told, with a large chunk of the exposition relegated to a scene late in the movie.

ESCAPE ROOM 2019 MOVIE

Until the movie runs out of places to go, I found myself having fun with the idea of puzzle-locked escape rooms being arranged for nefarious means. The bar, subsequently, is set very, very low for 2019’s January newborn, Escape Room, which arrives with PG-13 calibrated similarities to the 1998 cult classic, Cube, and finds a fresh-faced ensemble of actors working with director Adam Robitel, who lands his second consecutive first-horror-movie-of-the-year opening, following 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key.Īs terrible a movie as that happened to be, Robitel directs his tail off with Escape Room, and delivers two-thirds of a pretty clever, intriguing curio to play around with. Like seriously, have you watched The Devil Inside? The found footage exorcism flick which ended with a teaser to visit a website?!?!

Suffice to say, that list is far from impressive, with some of those films landing high on the list of the worst films from their respective years.

What began in 2008 with One Missed Call, has carried forward with such “classics” as: The Unborn, Daybreakers, Season of the Witch, The Devil Inside, Texas Chainsaw 3-D, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, The Forest, Underworld: Blood Wars, and Insidious: The Last Key. I appreciate that.įor the 12th consecutive year, a horror movie opens on the first weekend of the calendar year. However, it asks very little of its audience except to play along and check your ego at the door. If you really want to try, this can be picked apart really easily. In fact, most of the exposition is crowbarred into one scene, late in the film, which feels far too late and almost unnecessary (because we have mostly figured it what is revealed already.) How much you enjoy the opening two-thirds of the film will determine how much you tolerate in the final scenes. Honestly, I had way more fun with this than I expected. Though the final act is a major letdown, Escape Room has some clever scenes, surprises, and puzzles, which will make interested viewers engage from the opening moments. By: Mike Ward on Friday, January 04 PG-13 Running Time: 100 mins SHOULD I SEE IT? YESĪ far superior first horror film of the year, the best of a rough slate of annual films which kick off the new release schedule.

Escape room 2019