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6. The Plane Is Another Escape Room - Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions

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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is, just like its predecessor, a disappointingly tame PG-13 horror flick further weakened by atrociously dumb writing.

But its wild twist ending finally sees the film settling into the more self-aware, free-wheeling tone it should've had all along. While the reveal itself is actually quite predictable, it proves that this need not be a bad thing when it's actually fun.

At film's end, Zoey (Taylor Russell), Ben (Logan Miller), and Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll) finally manage to escape Minos' deadly facility and notify the police about their deadly escape rooms, bringing Minos' activities into the public eye.

A victory for the trio it seems, then, except when Zoey decides to get over her fear of flying and board a plane with Ben, it's soon enough revealed to be just another escape room, as we saw Minos testing out at the end of the first movie.

Sure, it felt like the most logical of cliffhanger endings, but it was also so delightfully ridiculous that it perhaps made even non-fans mildly intrigued to see where a third film took it.

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