Especially against the ticking clock, which becomes even more exacting here. Director Adam Robitel once again showcases an ability to wring tension out of each room with increasingly more gruesome means of dying. The electrified subway car makes for a decent warm-up, but the production design of the subsequent rooms often outshines the first film’s set pieces.
#Escape room game of champions series
Much like the first, Tournament of Champions works best when it focuses on lethal puzzle solving across an intricately designed series of rooms. Pictured: Rachel (Holland Roden), Nathan (Thomas Cocquerel), Ben Miller (Logan Miller), Brianna (Indya Moore) and Zoey Davis (Taylor Russell).
When the rigged trap springs, the six realize they’ve all survived Minos’s escape room before and entered against their will into a new game that aims to determine the best of the best. Instead, they get lured into a subway car along with four other occupants. But Tournament of Champions rushes to break its rules, retconning much of what worked about the first.Īfter a bizarre yet important therapy session that includes details on how a panic attack derailed Minos’s plane trap, Zoey and Ben opt to drive to Manhattan for proof of the deadly escape rooms. When it sticks to that formula, the sequel mostly works. Its sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, quickly bypasses that ending and finds a new way to pull the pair back into a new, elaborate escape room more impressive than the last. The implication being that they’re once again one step behind in their quest to stop the evil Minos Corporation. The ending of Escape Room teased another doomed plane ride for heroine Zoey Davis ( Taylor Russell ) and fellow survivor Ben Miller ( Logan Miller ).
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