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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 76TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiMake no mistake: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions may be fun, it’s also incredibly stupid. The premise makes no sense. The mechanics make no sense. The plot makes no sense. Look elsewhere for storytelling sanity. Look here if you want to see confident, creepy absurdity, with a ghoulish imagination and showmanship to spare.
- 63The Seattle TimesKatie WalshThe Seattle TimesKatie WalshEscape Room: Tournament of Champions is a pastiche of its predecessors, using this mosaic of tropes and formula familiarity as a shorthand to keep the film pared down to the basics of what exactly makes it tick: increasingly sadistic puzzles and a great cast of characters.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeEven when it’s trying too hard, the very fact that it’s trying at all makes it hard to dislike. The rules might not make any sense but you’ll have fun playing along regardless.
- 58The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAfter 30 or 40 minutes, it becomes clear that, despite a few more callbacks, this is a more-of-the-same sequel, not a next-level sequel.
- 55PolygonAusten GoslinPolygonAusten GoslinThe sequel abandons clever mysteries in favor of more straightforward action-horror, losing some of what made the original special in the process.
- 47Paste MagazineLex BriscusoPaste MagazineLex BriscusoSequels have a lot to prove by default, and by default I try to give them a bit more leniency. But there’s not much merit in the way Escape Room: Tournament of Champions skirts around the series’ rules and bends them out of shape, only to discard them when they matter most: In the script and story.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAn underwhelming attempt to turn a tight little thriller into a sequel-spawning franchise, Adam Robitel’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions lacks many of the original’s strengths while failing to improve on its more underdeveloped aspects.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyPart of the problem is that since everything is at so incessant a fever pitch, suspense flattens rather than builds, and we don’t care much about characters who spend nearly all their time yelling instructions at each other.
- 40EmpireBen TravisEmpireBen TravisSlickly produced but seriously stupid, Tournament Of Champions won’t exactly have you running for the exits — but your brain cells might not escape the room intact.
- 25New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiThe best thing about the Escape Room film series is that it gives audience members clear directions in the title about what they should immediately do: Escape. Room. Get out of that theater and go see Black Widow instead. Run for your lives — and sanity!