It all starts with one black puzzle box, sent to six handpicked people who are complete strangers to one another. Escape Room is one of the best thriller movies with intense action and violence that creates terror in the audience. The thriller spotlights three main characters; Jason, Zoey, and Ben throughout, its end (until one wins or gets eliminated). They were sought out to be the participants of this game due to different reasons. There might be ones who rejected the invitation to their most immersive escape rooms, but the movie doesn’t give us any clues about them. What would you ever do if you received a mysterious puzzle box of your own?
The same black puzzle box, addressed to six selected individuals accompanied by personalized notes, with one hidden single message for each, saying;
“This serves as an entry voucher for Minos Escape Rooms. Be the first to escape our most immersive room yet and win $10 000. RSVP at minosescaperooms.com.”
Jason; For always thinking outside the box
The mysterious puzzle box lands on his hands as a gift from a wealthy client. The brilliant stock trader Jason (Jay Ellis) receives his puzzle box with a note saying, “for always thinking outside the box.” Could he bring himself to think out of the box when winning $10 000 is in the line?
Zoey; Open new doors
Zoey (Taylor Russell) receives the black puzzle box at her door as a gift from her professor. The college student Zoey receives her puzzle box with a note saying, “open new doors.” A challenge is what she was waiting for; would she accept this challenge to open a new door?
Ben; A chance to escape
The black puzzle box he receives from his boss at the grocery store becomes his ticket to escape his current life. The stock boy Ben (Logan Miller) receives his puzzle box with a note saying, “a chance to escape.” Will Ben make it his chance to escape, or would he step into a further trap?
To the Escape Room
Michael, Amanda, Zoey, Ben, Jason, and Danny keeps waiting in the living room for the instructions to be the winner of $10 000. Danny (Nik Dodani) boasts that this is not his first time at the escape rooms while the other five keep sitting around nervously. What’s the fate of the others if it’s one of them that escapes? Would it be a light pat on the back with a consoling “try next time for better luck,”, or would it cost them more than they could ever imagine?
The living room turns out to be their first escape room, where they get nearly burned to death. All six of them manage to make it to the second escape room by their collective team effort. Everyone except Danny begins to regret their decision on participating in the escape room. Danny calls them a bunch of bores for thinking that the game is real and would cause a threat to their lives. Is Danny correct about them worrying for no reason, or are there real threats to their lives in these escape rooms?
Danny loses his luck
From the room of heat and fire to the room of cold and snow escaped all six! Danny, the most experienced of all five, loses his luck. This was at the second escape room when he drowns, breaking the ice. I wonder if he still kept believing that it’s all a game while he was drowning caught up in an undercurrent. Only five of them make it to the next room, only to lose another; Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll). With Amanda gone, the number reduced to four participants when they finally reached the fourth room.
The team spirit begins to waver once the participants start fearing for their lives; it’s just either one or none of them that would make it out alive. The need to survive drives them into being cold-blooded murderers. The remaining four participants realize that they all have one thing in common just before the Escape Room comes to an end; they are all the lone survivors of a tragic event. Would only one among them end up being the lone survivor of the Minos Escape Rooms?
Death of Micheal and Zoey
It’s just only Jason and Ben who barely escape into the third escape room. Micheal and Zoey end up dead knowing that their times have come to an end. Is this what the escape rooms were designed for; to turn its participants into killers just to meet a gruesome death? Now it’s the stock boy from the grocery store against the brilliant stock trader, but only one gets to leave alive as the winner.
Things get more complicated at the end of the game when Ben learns that no one who entered was ever supposed to leave the premises alive. All six of them had been nothing, but pawns in a chessboard manipulated by a games master for the amusement of wealthy people who willingly threw stacks of dollars to watch a good thriller! The plan gets messed when Zoey, who was supposedly dead dives in, to save Ben, who was mere seconds away from his own death.
The creator of the Escape Rooms gets cheated at his own games when the two of them walk out alive. Can’t say that the creator would be smiling happily about two people walking out alive when no one was ever meant to be as “Dead men tell no tales.” But it’s not the same for the Minos Escape Rooms since two of their participants are very much alive with the secret of their games. Both Zoey and Ben realize the value of life after going through a near-death situation. And they focus on improving their lives with what little they have. Will Zoey and Ben ever find the mastermind behind this battlefield hiding in plain sight?
The Cast
Taylor Russell as Zoey
Deborah Ann Woll as Amanda
Tyler Labine as Mike
Logan Miller Tyler Labine as Ben
Jay Ellis as Jason
Adam Robitel as Gabe
Nik Dodani as Danny
Jessica Sutton as Allison
Directed by: Adam Robitel
Runtime: 1h 40min
Genres: Action, Thriller
