ESCAPE ROOM
2½ STARS OUT OF 4 1 hours 39 minutes
PLOT:A group of strangers meet for an escape room adventure, only to find that the stakes are life and death.
SCOOP:Like most modern horror films, the plotting is silly and predictable. Characters are slowly picked off, and their psyches unravel as they come to grips with the situation. Director Adam Robitel does a nice job with the pacing, making the movie a pleasant – if entirely derivative – distraction. This isn’t an inventive picture, nor is it one that you need to see, but there are certainly worse ways to pass a Friday night.
STARRING:
Taylor Russell – Zoey Davis
Logan Miller – Ben Miller
Jay Ellis – Jason Walker
Tyler Labine – Mike Nolan
Deborah Ann Woll – Amanda Harper
Nik Dodani – Danny Khan
DIRECTOR: Adam Robitel (“Insidious: The Last Key”)
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