Six Strangers Find Themselves in a Deadly Room And Their Only Hope For Survival is to Find a Way Out
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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you an action,
00:03horror film from 2019, titled Escape Room. Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.
00:09The interior of a cozy, old-timey room can be seen. Suddenly, someone drops from the roof and
00:15runs toward a wall with a ten-number puzzle, requiring a four-digit code to get through.
00:20One of the walls starts moving in toward him and he panics as he looks for clues.
00:24He thinks he's found it in a book, but then he falls on the ground.
00:27He interprets the clue on four paintings in the room, but the wall is coming closer.
00:32The code he enters doesn't work so he starts panicking even more,
00:35screaming that there's no way out. His leg gets crushed by the wall.
00:39Three days earlier, Zoe can be seen walking to school. She's in class when the professor
00:44asks about the quantum Zeno effect. She's written down the answer in her notebook,
00:48but struggles to get her hand up to answer. The bell rings and the professor dismisses the class,
00:53but calls Zoe over to talk to her. He tells her that her paper was great and he tries to help her
00:58get out of her shell, by asking her to do one thing that scares her over the break.
01:02A motorcycle arrives in a business area, then we see Jason talking on the phone in his office,
01:07closing a business deal. His assistant tells him he has another call,
01:11which Jason thinks is about a client giving him a gift. He's right and feels great about it.
01:16Ben is labeling groceries in the back of a store, when his boss comes in. He asks him for a new job
01:22position, but he doesn't want to give it to him. His boss tells him to stop drinking if he wants
01:26to move forward. Back at Jason's office, a gift arrives for him in the form of a black box,
01:32that looks like it can't be easily opened. Jason thinks his client sent it to him.
01:37Zoe goes back to her room and talks to her roommate, who isn't impressed by her nerdy
01:41rant and leaves. She's anxious and trying to calm herself, when it looks like her mirror is shaking.
01:47She experiences something like airplane turbulence, when suddenly she wakes from a nightmare,
01:51her roommate asking if she's okay. Before Zoe's roommate leaves for the holidays she
01:56finds a package in front of their room addressed to her and gives it to her,
01:59saying it's from her professor. The same black box is in her package too.
02:03Ben gets to work early and sees one of the black boxes waiting for him. He tries to open it,
02:08by hitting it and throwing it, when it suddenly opens by itself and he continues the process.
02:13Meanwhile, Zoe also tries to open the box and she figures it out quite fast.
02:18Simultaneously, Jason watches YouTube videos to help him open the box.
02:22The three of them succeed in opening the box when a piece of paper comes out of it.
02:26It's a voucher for a Minus escape room, which if escaped would win them $10,000.
02:31The next day, Ben is waiting in front of the Minus building, smoking, when a car parks behind him.
02:37Amanda comes out and they have a small exchange, when she eyes him about smoking.
02:41She walks inside and gives the guard her ID as well as her phone. Before she walks into the
02:46elevator, he thanks her for her service in the army. Danny walks into the elevator with her,
02:51last minute. He takes out a phone which he has sneaked in. Amanda walks into the waiting room
02:56first, where Mike, Jason and Zoe are already sitting. She goes to the reception desk, but the
03:02rest tell her not to bother. Danny walks in second to her, as Mike is ranting about a childhood pet
03:07with heterochromia. Jason and Danny have an exchange about the scar on Jason's hand, and
03:12Amanda asks Zoe if they know each other, because she seems familiar to her. Ben walks in last and
03:17greets everyone. Amanda reads a newspaper about a fire and gets anxious. Danny tells the rest that
03:23he has been to 93 escape rooms before. Jason messes with him about that, but Mike tells Danny that his
03:29nephew is just like him and that he was the one that suggested he tries the Minus room. Amanda
03:33says she's only there for the money. Danny explains to the rest how the rooms usually work and Zoe
03:38asks how the game starts. He tells her that they have to wait for the game's master to take them to
03:43the escape room. Ben stands up to smoke another cigarette, but the doorknob breaks off when he
03:48touches it. Mike goes over to try and fix it, but Danny thinks that they already are in the escape
03:53room. He comes over to the door and sees the oven dial. He says that it's probably a combination
03:58lock, so he tells everyone to look for clues. Everyone searches around the room. Zoe sees a
04:04mug with an airplane and Amanda finds the name Dr. Wootenew, thinking it might be a clue. Mike
04:09picks up a copy of Fahrenheit 451 and finds a screwdriver hidden inside of it. Zoe thinks that
04:15451 might be the combination to the lock and inputs it in the door. Suddenly, the selling
04:20starts glaring red. They realize it's actually throwing off heat too. Zoe tries to turn off the
04:26dial, but it's stuck. Danny says that they can ask for a hint, so Amanda goes to ask at the reception.
04:32Jason finds a globe with a boat, which throws him off for a second, but then sees the lock on the
04:36window. Ben wants to break the window with a fire extinguisher, but when he sees that it's fake he
04:41throws it away. The four columns in the room start heating up too. Everyone is freaking out, except
04:47Danny and Zoe finds a key in the extinguisher. She opens the window and they see that the
04:52receptionist is actually a mannequin. Suddenly, the phone rings and they all expect Jason to pick
04:57up. The message is automated, saying they should follow the rules. When he drops the phone, the
05:02window shutters go up and more heaters appear. Zoe and Amanda go to get some water because Amanda
05:08is having an anxiety attack. Zoe sees the burns on her neck. The men are looking for clues, but
05:13have no idea what to do as the room is getting hotter. Zoe sees another clue about the coasters
05:18on the table. She runs over to it and presses one of them which opens an exit in the ducts.
05:23The exit opens a little, so they all have to press the coasters simultaneously to open it
05:27completely. Jason goes in the duct and finds a way out. He needs the screwdriver that Mike has,
05:32so Amanda switches places with him and lets him through. Jason opens the other exit. The others
05:38send Amanda next through the vent, while they hold the coasters with both hands. Zoe gets another
05:43idea about the puzzle. She fills a glass of water and places it on the coaster, pressing it down.
05:48Meanwhile, Amanda panics as she's crawling through the duct. She has a flashback from
05:53her time in Afghanistan. Zoe hears her scream and the rest tell her to go after Amanda.
05:58Danny and Ben fill the glasses with water, but they're half a glass short. They argue and a
06:03burner comes down in the room. Ben pours his liquor in the glass and the exit opens. They
06:08escape in the last second as the room burns. They jump through the fireplace into the next room.
06:13Danny is still excited thinking all of it is still a safe game,
06:16but Amanda thinks that it was all real and wants to get out. Jason finds another lock
06:21and Danny tries to convince Amanda not to call the police. He still gives her the phone,
06:25but there's no signal. Meanwhile Zoe and Jason are looking for clues and he finds the first
06:30key to one of the locks on the door. Then he finds the second lock on the door, which needs a
06:35seven-letter word to open. They all try to figure out the words, when Ben sees animal skulls on the
06:40wall. He has a flashback in which he's driving drunk with his friends and sings Christmas songs.
06:45He tells the others to try with Rudolph and it works. Jason opens the door and they start walking
06:50outside of the house, but Zoe and Ben stay back. When the two of them exit the house and it locks
06:55behind them. The next room looks like it's actually outside and it's really cold. Danny
07:00hits his head on the walls of the room, which are giant monitors. He falls on the ice and it
07:05sounds like it's cracking. Danny is still convinced that the room is safe. Freezing
07:10air starts shooting through the vents. He tells the rest to look for clues again. Jason is the
07:15one to find the door. Zoe sees the phrase True North is a lie etched on a sled. Simultaneously,
07:21Mike finds a fishing rod on a tree and Ben is trying to light a cigarette. Amanda finds one
07:26coat and says that they'll share it, then gives it to Zoe. Ben falls into a fishing hole and Danny
07:31says that there might be a clue in the water. Suddenly Mike brings over the fishing rod.
07:36While the rest of them are trying to figure out the puzzle, Zoe finds a compass in the coat pocket.
07:41She follows it north, but remembers what she read on the sled and goes the other way.
07:45Zoe finds another clue in the mouth of a stuffed bear and comes back to the group as Ben walks
07:49off to smoke his cigarette away from them. Zoe attaches the clue, which is a magnet,
07:54to the fishing line and Mike drops it inside again. Jason asks for the coat. Mike gets
07:59something on the rod, but it's really heavy. They pull out a frozen cube with the key inside.
08:04Jason asks for Ben's lighter and he throws it at them, prompting Danny to get it.
08:08When he gets the lighter and turns around, he falls into the water and under the ice.
08:13The others see him and try to break the ice to get him. Eventually they lose sight of him and
08:17he drowns. Jason gives Amanda the coat, saying she was right that the game is real. Mike and
08:23the group attack Ben, thinking that it's his fault that Danny fell. They think he's the game's master.
08:28He starts insulting all of them, but Jason stops him and tells them that it's more important to
08:32survive. Then he tells them that they should use their body heat to get the key out of the ice.
08:37The temperature drops in the room. Jason has a flashback of himself on a boat with his friend
08:42wearing a red coat. Mike faints, but Jason gets they key out. They find the door and it opens
08:48behind them. As they start moving toward it, the ice breaks and they jump inside in the last moment
08:53again. The next room is a bar where everything is upside down. The room starts moving up and
08:58when it stops the phone rings. Mike walks under the phone and it drops in his hand.
09:03There's a deafening noise and then music starts playing. Jason sees the door to the other room,
09:08but it's missing a doorknob. Mike notices the eight ball from the pool table missing and starts
09:13moving to look for clues, when the noise reappears and Ben stops him from falling over because a
09:17piece of the floor falls off. Amanda climbs the bar and finds a lockbox with four numbers. Zoe
09:23finds a sliding puzzle on the adjacent wall and climbs over the hole to it. Mike climbs over to
09:28her side too and helps her up. As she's solving the puzzle, another part of the floor falls off,
09:33almost taking Jason with it. Ben jumps over to the puzzle side and Zoe finally solves it.
09:38They figure out how to read it and get a four-digit code, but it doesn't work when Amanda
09:42inputs it in the lockbox. Another part of the floor falls and Mike and Ben grab onto the puzzle,
09:47but they're too heavy for it and it starts tipping over. Mike is too afraid to climb off,
09:52so Zoe does it and falls on the floor, hitting her head. They all call to her to get up,
09:57when she has a flashback of an airplane accident she was in, calling to her mom. Jason wakes her
10:02up and gets her back on the wall. Zoe tells Amanda to try the code in reverse and it works.
10:07She finds the doorknob inside the lockbox. Another part of the floor falls off. Amanda
10:13jumps over to the pool table trying to get to the other side, but drops the knob on the last
10:17part of the floor. As she drops down as well, the noise starts again so she throws the knob to Jason
10:22and grabs onto the phone, swinging over the hole. She slips and falls. Jason opens the door and Mike
10:28follows him. Ben gets Zoe to go into the other room and stays with her to calm her. The next room
10:34looks like a hospital. They all begin looking through it when they realize all of the hospital
10:38beds look familiar. Those are their beds when they were in the hospital. Zoe checks one of the other
10:44beds and sees that it's Amanda's. She was the sole survivor in an explosion. Zoe tells her own story
10:49as well. She was the sole survivor of a plane crash. Jason was the sole survivor of a boating
10:55accident. His story is that his friend lost his mind because of hypothermia and swam off. Ben
11:00shares that he as well was the only survivor in a car crash and Mike the only survivor in a mining
11:05accident. He has a flashback of the mine, as he tells them that his brother died in that accident.
11:10They start connecting all of their accidents to everything that was in the rooms. Zoe finds Danny's
11:15documents, he was a sole survivor in an accident as well. She thinks that the game is one of
11:20survival, to see who is the luckiest of the lucky. The TV starts playing and it shows a countdown to
11:26get out of the room. The three men start looking for ways to get out of the room. They find x-rays
11:31as clues, which Ben figures out are actually sign language and they mean EKG. Zoe starts smashing
11:37the cameras, thinking that if they keep watching them, the group won't be able to win. Jason finds
11:42the poison that will be released in the room when the countdown stops, then finds the EKG machine,
11:47saying that the right heartbeat will open the doors. First he tries with Ben's heart rate,
11:51but when it doesn't work, he convinces Mike to try it as well. His heart rate is high, but not
11:56high enough. Jason wants to shock him to get his heart rate higher and manages to convince him to
12:01do that too. He gets his rate up, but ends up killing him. Ben is trying to revive Mike, as
12:07the poison starts filling the room and Zoe is still breaking the cameras. Jason attaches the
12:11EKG to himself and gets his rate low enough. The door opens. Jason goes out, but Zoe doesn't want
12:18to go. Ben follows Jason out through the vents and the door closes. Zoe is suffocating and crawling
12:23toward an oxygen mask. Jason and Ben make it to the other room and they start arguing. Ben accuses
12:29him that he not only killed Mike, but his friend on the boat as well. Jason tells him that surviving
12:34is a choice and continues to look for clues, finding a hatch. They both grab on the hatch and
12:39open it. Suddenly, they start hallucinating. There was poison on the handle and the puzzle on the
12:45hatch tells them to find an antidote. Ben finds the antidote, but there's only one dose. Jason
12:50jumps him and they fight for it. Ben ends up killing Jason and injects himself with the antidote.
12:55Ben jumps into the other room. It's the same one from the beginning of the film.
13:00Meanwhile, the cleaning crew walks inside the hospital room and they think they've found two
13:04bodies. They find the oxygen mask hanging from the ceiling, when suddenly Zoe wakes up and knocks
13:09them both over. She grabs a gun from one of them and leaves the room. Simultaneously, Ben is at the
13:15other room, after he's messed up the code. He gets into the fireplace as the wall closes in and
13:20manages to escape the room. When he walks inside, a disembodied voice starts talking to him,
13:25telling him that his money were on Jason. The game's master appears telling him that he's won.
13:30Ben antagonizes him, but he just starts explaining what the point of the game is.
13:35The customers of the game are actually the most powerful people on the planet and they want
13:39entertainment with real stakes. The man tells Ben that he didn't think it was possible for him to
13:44win as he gives him a cigarette. Then he tries to kill him, but Ben suddenly stabs him with a
13:48piece of wood that was stuck in his leg. The monitor shows that Zoe and the man are both
13:53still in play, then she comes out shooting at him. The man tackles her and almost kills her,
13:58when Ben knocks him over and then shoots him. The both of them walk out of the building.
14:03One day later, Ben is in the hospital and is in a stable state.
14:06Zoe is seen sitting by his side. A detective comes in the room and asks her to come with him.
14:12He takes her to the Minus building, which is surrounded by officers. When they walk inside,
14:17nothing of the rooms remain. The detective doesn't believe what she's telling him about
14:21the escape rooms, because they haven't found any evidence. She sees the words No Way Out and
14:26realizes that it's an anagram for Dr. Wootenew. But the detective doesn't care and tells her they
14:31need to leave. Six months later, Ben and Zoe are having coffee. She shows him a file she's put
14:37together about the rest of their group and how their deaths were made to look like accidents.
14:41He tells her that she needs to let it go, but she continues explaining what she has found out about
14:45the game. Zoe had deciphered the logo and found out that it was the coordinates to a building in
14:50Manhattan. She's even bought the two of them plane tickets to get there. Ben doesn't like her
14:55plan, but ultimately agrees to go with her. A plane whooshes through the air with one engine on fire.
15:01A stewardess is looking for a clue and finds it in a bag. The tool doesn't open the cockpit door,
15:06but opens to another riddle. As the two stewards try to figure it out, a third one tells the
15:11passenger to brace for impact. The other two figure out the code and go inside the cockpit,
15:16only to find the pilot's dead. The stewardess tries to pilot the plane, but it crashes.
15:21Suddenly, two people appear and it becomes obvious that the plane accident was a simulation.
15:26A disembodied voice tells one of the people from the simulation that Zoe's and Ben's tickets were
15:31intercepted and that the game continues. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications
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