Escape Room:
Tournament of Champions
Year: 2021
Director: Adam Robitel
Starring: Logan Miller & Taylor Russell
Runtime: 88 mins
BBFC: 15
Published: 20/07/21
Director: Adam Robitel
Starring: Logan Miller & Taylor Russell
Runtime: 88 mins
BBFC: 15
Published: 20/07/21
2019’s Escape Room was asub-par Saw style thriller that presented some intricately designed and entertaining challenges for its unwilling victims to escape from. Despite nobody really wanting a sequel to it, we got one anyway. So does ‘Tournament of Champions’ up the ante to live up to the subtitle?
Following their escape from Minos Escape Rooms, survivors Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) set about tracking down Minos’ headquarters and making them answer for their crimes. When they reach New York City however they quickly find that they’ve got themselves caught up in another game, but this time are accompanied by other survivors from other Minos Escape Rooms.
Following their escape from Minos Escape Rooms, survivors Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) set about tracking down Minos’ headquarters and making them answer for their crimes. When they reach New York City however they quickly find that they’ve got themselves caught up in another game, but this time are accompanied by other survivors from other Minos Escape Rooms.
It’s a pretty standard and by the numbers plot that doesn’t try to stray too far from the formula established in the first film…and that’s the problem, it struggles to justify its existence as a sequel because it does nothing the first film didn’t already show us. There’s more well designed death rooms sure, but no progression on any kind of character building or even world building. It doesn’t feel like a sequel, it feels like a ninety minute extension to the original film that was cut out because it wasn’t needed.
There’s not much else I can say about Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. If you like the first film you may find some enjoyment from the sequel, but you’ll most likely wonder why it exists because it fails to build on the original; and newcomers will fail to see the importance in anything that’s happening. Just don’t bother with it is the best recommendation I can give.
There’s not much else I can say about Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. If you like the first film you may find some enjoyment from the sequel, but you’ll most likely wonder why it exists because it fails to build on the original; and newcomers will fail to see the importance in anything that’s happening. Just don’t bother with it is the best recommendation I can give.