![]() This battle for survival is set inside a house. For a while, there’s a steady tension in the air and the film travels along just nicely. So even though the rest of the group is barely introduced I cared just enough when they eventually run into trouble. This No Escape Room movie spends time providing a sense of familiarity and care factor to at least two of the cast characters. Mother of Movies has reviews for many of these films. There are so many escape room movies to choose from, that it’s hard to tell which ones are good and which are worth skipping. ![]() Of course, things take a turn for the group trying to solve the puzzle and they wonder if any of them will escape alive. They stop in a small town while their car is repaired and trying to impress his checked-out daughter, suggests going to an Escape Room advertised in the local paper. The writing was absolutely brilliant in this movie, but the execution was only good and predictable.No Escape Room is about a father and daughter who break down on a road trip. He has completed his transformation into a better person, but the world will only remember how he murdered someone "for no reason", "like it was just a prank bro chillll". More poetry considering he did this for them. ![]() We see that his friends have decided to care about the online life more than real life considering this is a really fucked up thing to do to someone. There were many subtle hints about this ending, but I'm okay with that. Makes since, but then we find out that this was still all just a game. Anyway, he escapes again to find the rich boy, and he kills him because he "was the reason his friends died". This scene was so poetic to me, and I fucking loved it. He tries to save her, but his villain self kills her just like what would've happened if he became like him in the future (or just something that would've gotten her hurt or killed, not necessarily something he would inflict on her). He finally gets to his villain self that's holding his girlfriend hostage, the very person that warned him of becoming like this. But anyway, back from the wilder speculation. This is a whole new mindset for him that may feel like a blind person walking through a new area. This part I may be overthinking, but you could maybe say that his "blind" friend represents himself in an area of life that's unfamiliar to him: only caring about what's in front of him. ![]() He finds his best friend first that can't see very well. He goes back inside to try and save the remaining ones. Now he has fully realized that real life and his friends are most important. Then he is able to escape, but then a thought comes to his mind: other people, his friends. As he's escaping, he's also metaphorically running away and disagreeing with that aspect of himself. They get kidnapped by the metaphorical, far-extreme side of what the hero could become: only caring about the online persona/product with no regard to human life a truly horrible person. His girlfriend almost dying has 99% converted him into caring about real life over online life. As he realizes the games are very real and something is going on, he forgets about the online aspect and focuses on his friends and his own survival. Then the escape room starts, and he clearly is more into his online persona (although, that's also arguably why they're there). He self reflects right after this conversation, but nothing is resolved yet. From the argument with his girlfriend and him after she was "almost taken" by the russian strangers, we see that he's struggling between himself and his online persona, and also which side of him is of higher importance in his mind. There are two sides to him shown in the very first scene. So, we start with the hero showing that he has to prep himself mentally for his online persona. The movie is amazing in a technical standpoint, but just good as a general standpoint.
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