Six people who survived the lethal escape room experience in the previous film (which I did not see) are unhappily trapped in another set of interlinked puzzle/traps.
Apparently escape rooms are a thing. Fair enough. Hopefully they are not laced with the fatal goings-on which we see here.
Listen, I quite enjoyed it - it fits the Saw formula of imaginatively engineered deaths, although it is far less gory - but it was profoundly stupid and entirely unbelievable. It makes no sense. We don't know who is doing this or why - presumably pay-per-view for rich people who like seeing people die in imaginative ways, or similar - but the sheer logistics and cost defy reason. We have gallons of acid pumped as rain onto a mocked-up New York street, and an actual Manhattan subway car hijacked and electrified to name but two.
Seriously?
There had better be a pretty good explanation for the finance somewhere down the line, what with the cost of Manhattan real estate!
Apparently escape rooms are a thing. Fair enough. Hopefully they are not laced with the fatal goings-on which we see here.
Listen, I quite enjoyed it - it fits the Saw formula of imaginatively engineered deaths, although it is far less gory - but it was profoundly stupid and entirely unbelievable. It makes no sense. We don't know who is doing this or why - presumably pay-per-view for rich people who like seeing people die in imaginative ways, or similar - but the sheer logistics and cost defy reason. We have gallons of acid pumped as rain onto a mocked-up New York street, and an actual Manhattan subway car hijacked and electrified to name but two.
Seriously?
There had better be a pretty good explanation for the finance somewhere down the line, what with the cost of Manhattan real estate!