“Thanks for flying Minos Air.”

From Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.

After barely surviving the murderous escape rooms trap by the mysterious company Minos, Zoey (Taylor Russell) is focused completely on expose the people responsible. While struggling with the trauma from her time in the escape rooms, Zoey tries to remember the rare positives, including the kindness of Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll), that sacrificed herself to allow Zoey and Ben (Logan Miller) a chance to escape. After gathering all the information that she found find about Minos, Zoey has discovered that the company operates out of an supposedly-abandoned building in New York City. Zoey asks Ben to accompany her to New York to search for proof of Minos’ crimes, and he agrees to help Zoey since she figured out how to help them escape. The two easily find the building, but before they can do much investigating, after chasing after a pickpocket Zoey and Ben find themselves in a subway car. When the subway car slams to a stop, locking the six passengers inside, Zoey quickly realizes that Minos found them and trapped them in another escape room. Minos’ new evil plan quickly becomes apparent when Zoey and Ben realize that the other passengers–Rachel (Holland Roden), Brianna (Indya Moore), Nathan (Thomas Cocquerel), and Derek (Carlito Olivero)–are all survivors of other deadly escape rooms. The former champions are both terrified and angry to be back in an escape room, but they all know that they’re only chance of survival comes through playing the games. As Zoey leads the others through the deadly rooms, they face a wide array of devices designed to torture and kill them, but she continues to gather as much proof against Minos as possible while fighting to beat the puzzle masters at their own evil game.

This thriller is packed with action and edge-of-your-seat suspense that doesn’t let go.  The cast is small, but with Russell and Miller reprising their roles, the story connects well to the 2019 original and gives the characters a chance to meet the requirements of their roles. Not exceptionally gory, the real horror of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions comes from the unseen designers twisting each character’s experience into a deadly game with a purely evil goal.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 88 minutes |Genre: thriller/action/horror|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 5 of 10

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