I loved the first escape room, but found the sequel to be lacking. The pacing was too fast in each room. Clues were coming thick and fast...too fast in some cases, that it didnt give you time to really enjoy each room and how it worked. Characters backstories not well explored so was hard to have a bond with them before they died, one of the "champions" died before we even knew his name!. Return of Amanda was a good twist, but the justification behind it...bit ridiculous. People who beat the game before are then supposed to create the new game...except Amanda didnt...she lost first time round. Bens constant "trust Zoey, she saved my life" was his standard response to every situation. How they got everyone they needed to in that one subway car at the beginning was a bit hard to believe. The inevitable set up for another movie at the end was no big surprise, but with the outing of Minos...how will they move the story along. Will it turn into a series of movies with Zoey being the final girl all the time? Time will tell....
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Off the Rails
(I) (2021)
Off the rails....a good idea that got derailed.
22 July 2021
What starts out as a good idea,three 50 something women brought back together following the death of a friend, who as a parting gift leave them 4 tickets for them to take her 18yr old daughter on a cross european train journey to fulfill her dying wish. For a premise that had so much potential, the movie felt flat, slow moving, dull and at the dialogue was painful and corney, rather than funny. The actors were quite good, but werent given a good enough script to work with. Each of the main characters backstories and their individual "issues" werent well explored and it was hard to believe them as friends. There was very little emotional payoff at the end, except relief that it was over.
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