Stars: 3.5/5 ⭐️So, I reviewed the first one a while back, and when I saw I could finally watch the new one, I was quite excited, because it has some people that I loved. Obviously, it had Zoey, played by Taylor Russell, and Ben, played by Logan Miller from the first movie, where they must solve their way through the rooms, but here we meet other people who have also escaped their rooms. So, there is Rachel, played by Holland Taylor, Brianna, played by Indya Moore, Nate, played by Thomas Cocquerel, and Theo, played by Carlito Olivero, although we actually never learn Theo's name because he dies very early on. And for a quick explanation, this movie is about a group of people trapped in an escape room, that's deadly, and it's kinda like a Squid Game thing where rich people watch the players try to survive the room. So, while the first one felt very quick with a lot of material, this movie felt like it needed to pad its run time, and although the twists in this movie were great, I cannot forgive it for padding the run time, because it felt a little stupid. Also, how the rooms are set up, just like the last one, these people are geniuses, because I don't think I would ever be able to solve one of the rooms, although then again there are 6 people in the game, and there is only one of me, but the thing is, with the rooms they were telling a story that none of our main characters knew. This is compared to the last one where each room was designed around a specific person, which was very helpful for exposition for the characters, whereas in this movie, we didn't know who really these people were, except for the clunky exposition they gave. But the thing that seemed the craziest was how they got all the people in one place, and that was how they got them all in one subway car in New York. Like, what are the odds that they're the only ones in the car, and there's nobody else? Impossible, especially because they were near where crowds were, so you would think there would be more people in the car. It just felt very lazy how the writers set this up, but obviously, there was no other way to get them all, since the only characters who wanted to go against Minos are our two main characters. However, there are points for this movie when it comes to the cinematography, and lighting of the scenes, and they some similar pallets to the Suicide Squad movie of 2018, where there were lots of neons used in this movie, and obviously the set design in this movie was top-notch, and they really brought it up a notch compared to the last one, where the rooms felt bigger and more detailed. The twist was also well done, and it made the movie even more twisted than it was before, so it makes me wonder what the third movie will be like, if they do even get a third movie, which I'm not exactly sure how they will deal with everything, as we learn in the end, FBI and Interpol have been after Minos for some time, but at the end of the first movie, Ben and Zoey couldn't go to anyone because they were seen as crazy people. So, the way that the third movie is set up was well done, because it was alluded to in the first movie, but I don't even know that I would want to see a third film, because the first two are very similar, and I feel a third movie that is so different would break the aesthetic of the film.
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