Featuring candidates trapped in an escape room forced to solve puzzles to hope to get out other than crushed between two walls or impaled at the bottom of a well, Escape Game had been one of the surprise successes of winter 2019. A clever and unpretentious film which, incidentally, garnered more than 150 million dollars in revenue (127 million euros), making this sequel inevitable, the main part of which common point with the first episode is its astonishing sobriety. No gratuitous gore or sadistic trappings Cube Where Saw : we are still in a gray area between Final destination and Fort Boyard, where you pick up tokens, cast anguished glances at the stopwatch, and die very cleanly, electrocuted dead or buried under quicksand. For the rest, Escape Game 2 has on the other hand clearly stepped on the accelerator: everything is faster, crazier, bigger, more twisted, more excessive. A little more con too but, frankly, who will complain regarding it?
Screams of defenestrated
Starting without wasting a second with an express summary of the first film and a muddy pretext dispatched in three and a half sequences to get the engine running once more, this second part immerses the survivors of the first film (Taylor Russell and Logan Miller) in a new game. murderer developed by the sprawling Minos organization, alongside four other candidates, who also emerged unscathed from a previous game. An All-Star Game, in short. Filmed with a shaker, sometimes to the point of frank confusion, certain proofs becoming almost unreadable by dint of frantic movements and the screams of the defenestrated. A burst of energy happily balanced by the ingenuity of the sets and situations and above all, an authentic generosity: no digression or marshmallow pause, the film goes straight, tightened to the maximum, stuffed with little ideas, without wink or turn bonneteau, total first degree. And too bad if half of the characters are very poorly written, if certain trials are solved far too easily and if the twists multiply to the point of nonsense: Escape Game 2 never tries to pass for anything other than what it is, namely an honest and efficient B series.
Escape Game 2. The world is a trap by Adam Robitel with Taylor Russell, Logan Miller… 1h28
