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Adam Robitel’s 2019 B-movie horror flick “Escape Room” had all the signs of a flash in the pan: early January release and a gimmicky premise based around a live entertainment trend. “Escape Room” was just that: a series of high-stakes, life-or-death puzzles, but thanks to the cast and characters, plus a fantastic final girl in Taylor Russell, it worked. Operating in the mode of the “Saw” and “Final Destination” franchises, there could be a long future for “Escape Room” movies, and the sequel, “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions,” even leaner and meaner than the first, proves the staying power of this budding series. There’s no other way to say it: This movie rips.
Starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Holland Roden
Real-world escape rooms have actually been shown to improve mental health and aid in dealing with daily stress. Obviously, with the new sequel
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, that is not the case. In fact, the participants (including survivors from the first
Escape Room) are probably going to be scarred for
life. That is, if they actually make it out
alive.
In a textbook sequel, Adam Robitel’s
Tournament of Champions builds out the world to unveil a much larger, more sinister plan at work beyond the grand architecture of the puzzle rooms themselves. Expanding the scope past the four walls of the original was probably inevitable, but the mystery sometimes gets in the way of what initially made the