Budget: $15 million
Directed By: Adam Robitel
I like to bunch anything where torture to characters in movies as a 'saw' type film. being one of the daddies of the franchise, though I know there were things before it but Saw really made them popular.
Along with the likes of Hostel which made the torture people for money angle more popular.
Making almost $50 million on a $15 million budget still made this a reasonable hit in our day and age, especially up against the abysmal space jam 2.
A sequel to the last Escape Room where the two main protagonists that survived that film return again in this film to take revenge on the company that trapped them in the first. There's some twists and turns, though I did ask myself the obvious question that why didn't the just leave well enough alone. Though thankfully they do bring this up in the film and answer it adequately too.
So we join Zoey and Ben (Taylor&Logan) some time after the first film, all healed in body but obviously still not in mind. They are planning to find where the head on the Minos Corporation is then get proof of their dastardly dealings in trapping and killing people for rich peoples amusement.
No we get a bit of a hoodwink AND a look at the people behind the creation of the rooms as Zoey and Ben are about to board a plane. In what seems like some kind of parallel the Minos Corp leader Henry (James Frain) working on a room seemingly based on an Aeroplane. Seems like it's trying to trick you into thinking the two are going to be in an escape room when they board,
Zoey seemingly foils this when she gets to scared to board the plane due to her fears of flying, They then get a rental to drive to the area they know of.
In this film we also get an insight into the family life of the people who make the trap rooms for these faceless millionaires too. The daughter is seemingly trapped by her father after her mother and her seemingly try to leave him a few years back, which we see in a flashback.
Unfortunately this gave away a massive secret to me as I watched as I'd seen something like this before in other films. I won't spoil it here though as it's an end of movie thing, which you know don't spoil unless the film is abysmally bad.
So doing their investigations Ben and Zoey get trapped once again by Minos on a subway train, trap room they quickly learn that everyone onboard is a survivor of one of the previous games, making this of course the Tournament of champions. They do say the thing I mentioned about why you'd ever go back to, or start looking for all this shit if you survived but then they do intelligently say it seems like they would have made them all return whether they were looking for them or not. Zoey along with a mysterious benefactor helps an ever shrinking team escape each room, as well as try to get proof to bring down the Minos Corporation.
So what did I think? Well it was decent, it was a good sequel, especially after the sequel baiting of the first movie. Was it needed? Probably not but if you were clamoring for more it'll fill that gap.
THN awards Escape Room ToC (2021) a good 3 stars out of 5
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