This leads to moments of overcomplication and the want to know more about characters, namely Brianna and Rachel played by Moore and Roden respectively. While the spectacle that is added with Escape Room 2 upping the ante adds entertainment, it leaves the characters hollow. In fact, because of the multiple layers, the pacing of the room drags and the way the characters focus on their tasks make sit hard to connect with them outside of just solving the puzzle. That said, the complicated nature of the rooms doesn’t offer up much in way of entertainment while the characters are solving the escape. The ability to turn rooms that feel authentic into traps of pure fear is something that Escape Room 2 excels at. With more extravagant situations that somehow push what you can do in a room and feel very much like an escape room, you’d enter with any group of friends. These small elements allow for variation in how each group approaches the puzzles and showcases how they only could have completed them with that exact group make-up.Īnd that’s what you’re showing up to Escape Room 2 for right? The rooms are more complicated this go-around which leads to larger set pieces that offer more brutal ways to die. That said, the lack of character depth is made for with the character types in the film, each with different specialties or quirks that tied them to the group they played with originally before making it into the Tournament of Champions. While there are new additions to the cast, Zoey is the only character who gets to grow, while the others exist as fodder for the escape rooms to outsmart. Primarily, Zoey and Ben are trying to do two things after their “win.” The first is to tear down the company behind it all and the second is to just get back to a normal life.

While the bulk of Escape Room 2 is focused on survival through rooms that up the ante in complication and puzzle design, there is a human story at the center of it. Like the title tells you, each one of them has beaten the escape rooms before, but this test is different. In Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms. Additionally, the film stars Indya Moore, Holland Roden, Carlito Olivero, and Thomas Cocquerel. This sequel picks up where the last film left off, with Taylor Russell and Logan Miller reprising their roles as the last two survivors, Zoey and Ben, who are now traumatized by their experience in the room. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (Escape Room 2) is the sequel to Escape Roomand directed by Adam Robitel with a screenplay by Will Honley and Maria Melnik, and Daniel Tuch (story by Christine Lavaf, Fritz Böhm, and Honley). They test you in the same way puzzle rooms in video games do, and that alone makes a stellar concept for a franchise of action-horror films.

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