Escape Room: Tournament of Champions ups the ante and raises the stakes from the original. Sort of like a cross between The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and a much tamer version of Saw, Tournament of Champions follows Zoey and Ben, the survivors from the first film who find themselves trapped in a new and more elaborate game concocted buy the shadowy organisation Minos, alongside a bunch of other previous winners.
There are some pretty intense sequences in this film and the rooms overall are an improvement on the original. There's a particularly good one set in a bank vault with a laser security grid. I thought the characters as well were less obnoxious and more likeable this time around, but you won't be particularly gutted to see any of them killed off. The distinctly sub-par acting also didn't help, I actually laughed at one point because the line delivery was so poor.
It was weird to see the film open up with a 'previously on Escape Room' recap that you'd expect to see on a TV show, and the ending was just as facepalmingly silly as the first. However, even if the film is utterly ridiculous and pull of plot holes the size of The Grand Canyon, It's a fairly entertaining and enjoyable experience that I'd recommend checking out if you enjoyed the first Escape Room.
There are some pretty intense sequences in this film and the rooms overall are an improvement on the original. There's a particularly good one set in a bank vault with a laser security grid. I thought the characters as well were less obnoxious and more likeable this time around, but you won't be particularly gutted to see any of them killed off. The distinctly sub-par acting also didn't help, I actually laughed at one point because the line delivery was so poor.
It was weird to see the film open up with a 'previously on Escape Room' recap that you'd expect to see on a TV show, and the ending was just as facepalmingly silly as the first. However, even if the film is utterly ridiculous and pull of plot holes the size of The Grand Canyon, It's a fairly entertaining and enjoyable experience that I'd recommend checking out if you enjoyed the first Escape Room.