Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

"Movies about groups of people who must survive deadly games have become a kind of subgenre in Hollywood -- in addition to the Jigsaw movie saga, there's also the disturbing 'Cube' or even the Spanish 'The Well'. And for the teenage audience there's a surefire option: 'Escape Room', a movie saga inspired by the famous rooms where participants must escape before time runs out. After a creative but unremarkable first movie, 'Escape Room: Tournament of Champions' seeks to raise the level of the thing. Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) are back in the game, but now they must escape from deadly rooms against other challenge champions. There's acid rain, subway shocks and unimaginable things. It repeats the good fun of the first movie, albeit with too simplistic effects, and gives continuity to this escapist adventure that doesn't seem to have an expiration date anytime soon. It won't change your life and it will hardly become a beloved movie in your memory -- after all, director Adam Robitel, the same as the first movie, just does the basics. But it will entertain you, especially if you watch it with friends or in a group. Oh, and one more thing: in the United States, Sony Pictures released a version with additional scenes and an alternate ending involving a character played by Isabelle Fuhrman, the girl from 'Orphan', which shows details of the company that controls the games. Maybe this subject, which was totally left out of the official version that came to theaters, will gain more layers with Fuhrman soon."