there's not a single moment of this lame new film that doesn't feel manufactured in such a corporate manner. Its not asking much that a thriller be scary or shocking. This one waffles between being predictable and absurd
it was inevitable that "Escape Room" would be a bad movie. The premise ("Find the clues or die") is too obvious, too easy, for anyone with real ambition to want to run with it. But at least it could have been fun-bad, not just boring-bad
for all its of-the-moment charms, "Escape Room" can't shake its more basic genre trappings, eventually giving itself over to tired and predictable revelations and flimsy twists
cheap, not-so-creepy; illogical; absurd... It's like the filmmakers themselves were locked in an escape room with no way out. At least, in the end, it's true to the film's premise. "Escape Room" is trapped
by Johnny Oleksinski [New York Post ]
