Escape Room (2017) Movie Review

Escape Room (2017) IMDB PRIME

First we need to do some housekeeping. This movie is Escape Room from 2017 directed by Will Wernick. At the time of me writing this it has about 14K votes on IMDB and had a box office of $1.9M worldwide. It is not the much more popular Escape Room from 2019 directed by Adam Robitel with 123K votes and a $158M worldwide box office that led to the sequel Escape Room Tournament of Champions. That is probably the one you know. But it is also not the movie Escape Room from 2017 directed by Peter Dukes with 4K votes and a box office of $2.6M. I see how you could be confused, There is also The Escape Room, a short from 2020 and No Escape Room, a TV Movie from 2018. If you think that is the end of the housekeeping, I am assuming none of you will confuse the Catalan language movie from Spain, Escape Room: La pel-licula with the movie I will speak about today.

This movie caught my eye initially as I was browsing a movie site and I noticed the poster that included a maze. At first I thought it was the box office success above from 2019 which I had already seen, but some quick IMDB detective work said this was something new. The plot is what you would think. A group of friends goes to an Escape Room, in this case for a person’s birthday. It’s all fun and games until things get a bit too real. The puzzles are ok but the motivations behind the narrative seemed a bit weak to me. I never felt very tense watching the movie, which is a problem with this kind of movie.

I mentioned the movie poster for this above. And I want to show you 3 more versions of it alongside the original, all featuring mazes. If you are interested in posters, check out my blog The 10 Best Maze Themed Movie Posters.

I really like the full maze on the door !