Synopsis
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
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Cast
- Taylor RussellZoey Davis
- Logan MillerBen Miller
- Indya MooreBrianna Collier
- Holland RodenRachel Ellis
- Thomas CocquerelNathan
- Carlito OliveroTheo
- James FrainHenry / Puzzlemaker
- Isabelle FuhrmanClaire
- Deborah Ann WollAmanda Harper
- Tanya van GraanSonya (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 76
TheWrap
Make no mistake: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions may be fun, it’s also incredibly stupid. The premise makes no sense. The mechanics make no sense. The plot makes no sense. Look elsewhere for storytelling sanity. Look here if you want to see confident, creepy absurdity, with a ghoulish imagination and showmanship to spare. - 63
The Seattle Times
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is a pastiche of its predecessors, using this mosaic of tropes and formula familiarity as a shorthand to keep the film pared down to the basics of what exactly makes it tick: increasingly sadistic puzzles and a great cast of characters. - 60
The Guardian
Even when it’s trying too hard, the very fact that it’s trying at all makes it hard to dislike. The rules might not make any sense but you’ll have fun playing along regardless. - 58
The A.V. Club
After 30 or 40 minutes, it becomes clear that, despite a few more callbacks, this is a more-of-the-same sequel, not a next-level sequel. - 55
Polygon
The sequel abandons clever mysteries in favor of more straightforward action-horror, losing some of what made the original special in the process. - 47
Paste Magazine
Sequels have a lot to prove by default, and by default I try to give them a bit more leniency. But there’s not much merit in the way Escape Room: Tournament of Champions skirts around the series’ rules and bends them out of shape, only to discard them when they matter most: In the script and story. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
An underwhelming attempt to turn a tight little thriller into a sequel-spawning franchise, Adam Robitel’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions lacks many of the original’s strengths while failing to improve on its more underdeveloped aspects. - 40
Variety
Part of the problem is that since everything is at so incessant a fever pitch, suspense flattens rather than builds, and we don’t care much about characters who spend nearly all their time yelling instructions at each other.
