No Escape Room

2018

1h 26m

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6.2/10

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A father and daughter check out a small town escape room and discover there is something sinister about the place.

Directors

Alex Merkin

Writers

Jesse Mittelstadt(screenplay by)

Stars

Jeni Ross

Mark Ghanimé

Hamza Haq

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Karen

Michael

Tyler

Melanie

Andrew

Josie

Betsy

Lady in the Water

Rotting Corpse

Directors

Alex Merkin

Writers

Jesse Mittelstadt(screenplay by)

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Decent watch, probably won't watch again, but can recommend if you're looking for another "escape room movie". This is a weird movie, just what it is. I'm down with the premise and I went in thinking it was going to be a "House of 1000 Corpses" version of "Escape Room", and it's really neither. It's closer to "Amityville Horror", "1408", or "Thirteen Ghosts" with an escape room element (but not nearly as good) than either of those movies. I also went in thinking Jeni Ross was Debbi Ryan ("Insatiable"), of whom I'm not a big fan, but has proven she can carry a movie. Jeni Ross does a great job here, showing a lot of range and is very expressive. The rest of the cast is acceptable, if forgettable. This is a classic symptom of random and sudden deaths in characters in poor productions: the studio doesn't want to invest in a character just to kill them off, but they forget that the audience is the one that needs to be invested in the character for its death to mean anything, so the kills are a little disappointing in this. There is good in this movie, and fans of the genres it shares: escape rooms, haunted house, and time loops will have some fun. It just tries to be too much ending as too little.

Kamurai10 Oct, 2020