What’s It About
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive. Joining forces with two of the original survivors, they soon discover they’ve all played the game before.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
The pandemic is (almost) over, and the fun films are coming out. Spiral, Fast9, Forever Purge, the list is growing. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is the latest “fun” film, and it does not disappoint. Lousy character development, somewhat predictable, and a lot of “how big is this damn place” sums up this and any subsequent films from this point on. But, Escape Room 2, like its predecessor, was never about character development, although a few of them had a little depth. It’s a thriller with some horror aspects, so you know it will be predictable in places. Then there’s the size. If you thought the escape rooms in the first one were huge, the second film’s rooms are conspiracy level large. There are so many things wrong I could point out, but I’m sure they weren’t trying to win an Oscar. The Escape Room franchise is all about the rooms and trying to kill those people in them, the same way the Saw franchise uses traps to kill, or the Fast and Furious movies are all about the cars. Movies like this are all about the experience. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is just what the title says, a collection of escapees that some wealthy corporation called the Minos was able to recapture and put through more nearly impossible rooms for the amusement of some unknown gamblers. If you didn’t know the Escape Room story, no worries, they explain the whole story at the beginning. I guess that was supposed to justify how they could build and get away with everything without repercussion. Honestly, I didn’t care about that. The purpose of this movie is to create traps and watch people try and escape – period. Escape Room 2 does a damn good job at putting the players through some intense challenges, and not knowing that much about them adds to the mystery. In other words, anyone could die at any time, and you would never see it coming.
OUR RATING – NO ROOM FOR ESCAPE 7
MEDIA
- Genre – Thriller
- Street date
- Digital – September 21st, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray October 5th, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, English: Descriptive Audio, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
• Theatrical and Extended Cuts of ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
• Go Inside the Minos Escape Rooms
• Meet the Players
• Director Adam Robitel on Raising the Stakes