“Let’s play again.”

From Escape Room.

When six people randomly receive a puzzle box from friends with an invitation to test out an escape room with a $10,000 prize, Zoey (Taylor Russell) the nervous-but-brilliant college student, Ben (Logan Miller) the drunk loser, Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll) the military veteran, Mike (Tyler Labine) the over-talkative truck driver, Jason (Jay Ellis) the rich stock trader that never loses, and Danny (Nik Dodani) the young escape room enthusiast show up to take the challenge.  The six strangers meet in the waiting room of Minos Escape Room and realize that they have nothing in common with each other, but quickly start to see that the clues scattered about the room all point to their secrets from the past.  Once the game starts, it instantly becomes obvious that this escape room is more dangerous and more complex than any of them expected; what they thought would be a chance for easy money quickly becomes a clue-filled fight for their lives.  Each player’s unique personality and character traits quickly come to the surface as each subsequent room contains more danger and requires more extreme choices from the players.  By the time they realize that this is not an escape room for fun, the six are locked inside with no way to escape and an unknown game master watching their every move.  The question soon becomes not when they will get out but if anyone will be able to escape alive.

This thriller is packed with action and edge-of-your-seat suspense that instantly grabs viewers and doesn’t let go until the very end.  Each member of the small cast is perfectly selected to carry both the weight and diversity of their role; the sets and overall mystery are brilliantly crafted to convey the life-threatening feeling that pushes the characters forward.  While not exceptionally gory, the movie’s real horror eventually comes from scared people choosing between survival and the survival of others.  Escape Room is an intense ride that will leave the audience wanting more.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 109 minutes |Genre: thriller/mystery/suspense |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 3 of 10

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