![]() ![]() Given the montage at the beginning, you honestly don’t even need to see the first one and could just watch this one on its own. Most sequels are inevitable cash grabs, but that doesn’t mean it has to do the exact same thing as the first movie. Granted, the rooms are pretty cool, particularly the beach and bank ones, however it doesn’t really try anything new or different. The primary issue with Tournament of Champions is that it essentially gives us the same movie again. The other players also reveal that they are previous survivors and what follows is the titular Tournament of Champions, as all of these previous winners have to survive once more. This leads them into a subway car that detaches from the rest and the games begins once again. Their investigation takes them to an abandoned building in Manhattan. Despite everything, or perhaps in spite of everything, Zoey is determined to bring down Minos and expose them for what they are. To the movie’s credit, it does a decent job of showing how both characters struggle with flashbacks, nightmares, and PTSD from the trauma of the first movie. ![]() Zoey’s definitely more of an active protagonist this time. Opening with a very detailed montage of the first film that makes it so you don’t even have to watch the whole movie first, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions picks up with Zoey and Ben following their survival. And while it features an absolutely amazing and creative production design like its predecessor, plot-wise however it just sort of feels like the same movie again…with a twist! The rooms are pretty cool at least… Given the immense success of 2019’s Escape Room (grossing $155 million on a $9 million budget), a sequel was always inevitable, and now it’s arrived in the form of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. ![]()
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