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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you an action, horror film from 2019,
00:05titled 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 10-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. He interprets the clue on
00:28four paintings in the room, but the wall is coming closer. The code he enters doesn't work
00:33so he starts panicking even more, screaming that there's no way out. His leg gets crushed by the
00:38wall. Three days earlier, Zoe can be seen walking to school. She's in class when the professor asks
00:44about the quantum Zeno effect. She's written down the answer in her notebook, but struggles to get
00:49her hand up to answer. The bell rings and the professor dismisses the class, but calls Zoe over
00:54to talk to her. He tells her that her paper was great and he tries to help her get out of her
00:59shell, by asking her to do one thing that scares her over the break. A motorcycle arrives in a
01:04business area, then we see Jason talking on the phone in his office, closing a business deal.
01:09His assistant tells him he has another call, which Jason thinks is about a client giving him a gift.
01:14He's right and feels great about it. Ben is labeling groceries in the back of a store,
01:19when his boss comes in. He asks him for a new job position, but he doesn't want to give it to him.
01:24His boss tells him to stop drinking if he wants to move forward. Back at Jason's office,
01:29a gift arrives for him in the form of a black box, that looks like it can't be easily opened.
01:34Jason thinks his client sent it to him. Zoe goes back to her room and talks to her roommate,
01:40who isn't impressed by her nerdy rant, and leaves. She's anxious and trying to calm herself,
01:44when it looks like her mirror is shaking. She experiences something like airplane turbulence,
01:49when suddenly she wakes from a nightmare, her roommate asking if she's okay.
01:53Before Zoe's roommate leaves for the holiday, she finds a package in front of their room
01:57address to her and gives it to her, saying it's from her professor. The same black box is in her
02:02package too. Ben gets to work early and sees one of the black boxes waiting for him. He tries to
02:08open it, by hitting it and throwing it, when it suddenly opens by itself and he continues the
02:12process. Meanwhile, Zoe also tries to open the box and she figures it out quite fast. Simultaneously,
02:19Jason watches YouTube videos to help him open the box. The three of them succeed in opening the box
02:24when a piece of paper comes out of it. It's a voucher for a Minus escape room, which if escaped
02:29would win them $10,000. The next day, Ben is waiting in front of the Minus building, smoking,
02:35when a car parks behind him. Amanda comes out and they have a small exchange, when she eyes him about
02:40smoking. She 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 Amanda
03:12asks Zoe if they know each other, because she seems familiar to her. Ben walks in last and greets
03:17everyone. Amanda reads a newspaper about a fire and gets anxious. Danny tells the rest that he has
03:23been to 93 escape rooms before. Jason messes with him about that, but Mike tells Danny that his nephew
03:29is just like him and that he was the one that suggested he tries the Minus room. Amanda says she's
03:34only there for the money. Danny explains to the rest how the rooms usually work and Zoe asks how the
03:39game starts. He tells her that they have to wait for the game's master to take them to the escape
03:44room. Ben stands up to smoke another cigarette, but the doorknob breaks off when he touches it.
03:49Mike goes over to try and fix it, but Danny thinks that they already are in the escape room.
03:54He comes over to the door and sees the oven dial. He says that it's probably a combination lock,
03:59so he tells everyone to look for clues. Everyone searches around the room. Zoe sees a mug with an
04:04airplane and Amanda finds the name Dr. Wootenu, thinking it might be a clue. Mike picks up a
04:10copy of Fahrenheit 451 and finds a screwdriver hidden inside of it. Zoe thinks that 451 might
04:16be the combination to the lock and inputs it in the door. Suddenly, the selling starts glaring red.
04:22They realize it's actually throwing off heat too. Zoe tries to turn off the dial, but it's stuck.
04:28Danny 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
04:36on the window. Ben wants to break the window with a fire extinguisher, but when he sees that
04:41it's fake he throws it away. The four columns in the room start heating up too. Everyone is freaking
04:46out, except Danny and Zoe finds a key in the extinguisher. She opens the window and they see
04:51that the receptionist is actually a mannequin. Suddenly, the phone rings and they all expect
04:56Jason to pick up. The message is automated, saying they should follow the rules. When he
05:01drops the phone, the window shutters go up and more heaters appear. Zoe and Amanda go
05:06to get some water because Amanda is having an anxiety attack. Zoe sees the burns on her
05:11neck. The men are looking for clues, but have no idea what to do as the room is getting hotter.
05:16Zoe sees another clue about the coasters on the table, she runs over to it and presses one
05:21of them which opens an exit in the ducts. The exit opens a little, so they all have to press
05:25the coasters simultaneously to open it completely. Jason goes in the duct and finds a way out.
05:30He needs the screwdriver that Mike has, so Amanda switches places with him and lets him through.
05:36Jason opens the other exit. The others send Amanda next through the vent, while they hold
05:40the coasters with both hands. Zoe gets another idea about the puzzle. She fills a glass of water
05:45and places it on the coaster, pressing it down. Meanwhile, Amanda panics as she's crawling through
05:51the duct. She has a flashback from her time in Afghanistan. Zoe hears her scream and the rest
05:56tell her to go after Amanda. Danny and Ben fill the glasses with water, but they're half a glass
06:01short. They argue and a burner comes down in the room. Ben pours his liquor in the glass and the
06:06exit opens. They escape in the last second as the room burns. They jump through the fireplace into the
06:12next room. Danny is still excited thinking all of it is still a safe game, but Amanda thinks that it
06:18was all real and wants to get out. Jason finds another lock and Danny tries to convince Amanda not to
06:23call the police. He still gives her the phone, but there's no signal. Meanwhile Zoe and Jason are
06:28looking for clues and he finds the first key to one of the locks on the door. Then he finds the
06:33second lock on the door, which needs a seven-letter word to open. They all try to figure out the words,
06:38when Ben sees animal skulls on the wall. He has a flashback in which he's driving drunk with his
06:43friends and sings Christmas songs. He tells the others to try with Rudolph and it works. Jason opens the
06:49door and they start walking outside of the house, but Zoe and Ben stay back. When the two of them
06:54exit the house and it locks behind them. The next room looks like it's actually outside and it's
06:59really cold. Danny hits his head on the walls of the room, which are giant monitors. He falls on the
07:05ice and it sounds like it's cracking. Danny is still convinced that the room is safe. Freezing air
07:10starts shooting through the vents. He tells the rest to look for clues again. Jason is the one to find
07:16the door. Zoe sees the phrase true north is a lie etched on a sled. Simultaneously, Mike finds a
07:22fishing rod on a tree and Ben is trying to light a cigarette. Amanda finds one coat and says that
07:27they'll share it, then gives it to Zoe. Ben falls into a fishing hole and Danny says that there might
07:32be a clue in the water. Suddenly Mike brings over the fishing rod. While the rest of them are trying
07:37to figure out the puzzle, Zoe finds a compass in the coat pocket. She follows it north, but remembers
07:42what she read on the sled and goes the other way. Zoe finds another clue in the mouth of a stuffed
07:47bear and comes back to the group as Ben walks off to smoke his cigarette away from them. Zoe attaches
07:52the clue, which is a magnet, to the fishing line and Mike drops it inside again. Jason asks for the
07:58coat. Mike gets something on the rod, but it's really heavy. They pull out a frozen cube with the
08:03key inside. Jason asks for Ben's lighter and he throws it at them, prompting Danny to get it. When he gets
08:09the lighter and turns around, he falls into the water and under the ice. The others see him and try
08:14to break the ice to get him. Eventually they lose sight of him and he drowns. Jason gives Amanda the
08:19coat, saying she was right that the game is real. Mike and the group attack Ben, thinking that it's his
08:25fault that Danny fell. They think he's the game's master. He starts insulting all of them, but Jason stops
08:31him and tells them that it's more important to survive. Then he tells them that they should use their body
08:35heat to get the key out of the ice. The temperature drops in the room. Jason has a flashback of himself
08:41on a boat with his friend wearing a red coat. Mike faints, but Jason gets the key out. They find the
08:47door and it opens behind them. As they start moving toward it, the ice breaks and they jump inside in
08:52the last moment again. The next room is a bar where everything is upside down. The room starts moving up
08:59and when it stops the phone rings. Mike walks under the phone and it drops in his hand. There's a deafening
09:04noise and then music starts playing. Jason sees the door to the other room, but it's missing a
09:09doorknob. Mike notices the eight ball from the pool table missing and starts moving to look for clues,
09:14when the noise reappears and Ben stops him from falling over because a piece of the floor falls
09:18off. Amanda climbs the bar and finds a lockbox with four numbers. Zoe finds a sliding puzzle on
09:24the adjacent wall and climbs over the hole to it. Mike climbs over to her side too and helps her up.
09:30As she's solving the puzzle, another part of the floor falls off, almost taking Jason
09:34with it. Ben jumps over to the puzzle side and Zoe finally solves it. They figure out how to read it
09:39and get a four-digit code, but it doesn't work when Amanda inputs it in the lockbox. Another part of
09:45the floor falls and Mike and Ben grab onto the puzzle, but they're too heavy for it and it starts
09:49tipping over. Mike is too afraid to climb off, so Zoe does it and falls on the floor, hitting her head.
09:55They all call to her to get up, when she has a flashback of an airplane accident she was in,
10:00calling to her mom. Jason wakes her up and gets her back on the wall. Zoe tells Amanda to try the
10:05code in reverse and it works. She finds the doorknob inside the lockbox. Another part of
10:11the floor falls off. Amanda jumps over to the pool table trying to get to the other side,
10:16but drops the knob on the last part of the floor. As she drops down as well, the noise starts again so
10:21she throws the knob to Jason and grabs onto the phone, swinging over the hole. She slips and falls.
10:26Jason opens the door and Mike follows him. Ben gets Zoe to go into the other room and stays with
10:32her to calm her. The next room looks like a hospital. They all begin looking through it,
10:37when they realize all of the hospital beds looked familiar. Those are their beds when they were in
10:41the hospital. Zoe checks one of the other beds and sees that it's Amanda's. She was the sole survivor
10:47in an explosion. Zoe tells her own story as well. She was the sole survivor of a plane crash.
10:52Jason was the sole survivor of a boating accident. His story is that his friend lost his mind because
10:58of hypothermia and swam off. Ben shares that he as well was the only survivor in a car crash and
11:03Mike the only survivor in a mining accident. He has a flashback of the mine, as he tells them that his
11:09brother died in that accident. They start connecting all of their accidents to everything that was in
11:13the rooms. Zoe finds Danny's documents, he was a sole survivor in an accident as well. She thinks that
11:20the game is one of survival, to see who is the luckiest of the lucky. The TV starts playing and
11:25it shows a countdown to get out of the room. The three men start looking for ways to get out of
11:29the room. They find X-rays as clues, which Ben figures out are actually sign language and they
11:35mean EKG. Zoe starts smashing the cameras, thinking that if they keep watching them, the group won't be
11:40able to win. Jason finds the poison that will be released in the room when the countdown stops,
11:45then finds the EKG machine, saying that the right heartbeat will open the doors. First he tries with
11:50Ben's heart rate, but when it doesn't work, he convinces Mike to try it as well. His heart rate
11:55is high, but not high enough. Jason wants to shock him to get his heart rate higher and manages to
12:01convince him to do that too. He gets his rate up, but ends up killing him. Ben is trying to revive Mike,
12:07as the poison starts filling the room and Zoe is still breaking the cameras. Jason attaches the EKG to
12:12himself and gets his rate low enough. The door opens. Jason goes out, but Zoe doesn't want to go.
12:19Ben follows Jason out through the vents and the door closes. Zoe is suffocating and crawling toward
12:24an oxygen mask. Jason and Ben make it to the other room and they start arguing. Ben accuses him that he
12:30not only killed Mike, but his friend on the boat as well. Jason tells him that surviving is a choice
12:35and continues to look for clues, finding a hatch. They both grab on the hatch and open it. Suddenly,
12:41they start hallucinating. There was poison on the handle and the puzzle on the hatch tells them to
12:46find an antidote. Ben finds the antidote, but there's only one dose. Jason jumps him and they
12:51fight for it. Ben ends up killing Jason and injects himself with the antidote. Ben jumps into the other
12:57room. It's the same one from the beginning of the film. Meanwhile, the cleaning crew walks inside the
13:02hospital room and they think they've found two bodies. They find the oxygen mask hanging from the
13:07selling, when suddenly Zoe wakes up and knocks them both over. She grabs a gun from one of them
13:12and leaves the room. Simultaneously, Ben is at the other room, after he's messed up the code.
13:18He gets into the fireplace as the wall closes in and manages to escape the room. When he walks inside,
13:23a disembodied voice starts talking to him, telling him that his money were on Jason. The game's master
13:29appears telling him that he's won. Ben antagonizes him, but he just starts explaining what the point of
13:34the game is. The customers of the game are actually the most powerful people on the planet and they
13:39want entertainment 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 the piece
13:49of wood that was stuck in his leg. The monitor shows that Zoe and the man are both still in play,
13:54then she comes out shooting at him. The man tackles her and almost kills her, when Ben knocks him over
13:59and then shoots him. The both of them walk out of the building. One day later, Ben is in the hospital
14:05and is in a stable state. Zoe is seen sitting by his side. A detective comes in the room and asks her
14:11to come with him. He 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 the escape rooms,
14:22because they haven't found any evidence. She sees the words no way out and realizes that it's an anagram
14:27for Dr. Wootenu. But the detective doesn't care and tells her they need to leave.
14:32Six months later, Ben and Zoe are having coffee. She shows him a file she's put together about the
14:38rest of their group and how their deaths were made to look like accidents. He tells her that she needs
14:42to let it go, but she continues explaining what she has found out about the game. Zoe had deciphered
14:48the logo and found out that it was the coordinates to a building in Manhattan. She's even bought the two
14:52of them playing tickets to get there. Ben doesn't like her plan, but ultimately agrees to go with her.
14:57A plane whooshes through the air with one engine on fire. A stewardess is looking for a clue and finds
15:03it in a bag. The tool doesn't open the cockpit door, but opens to another riddle. As the two
15:09stewards try to figure it out, a third one tells the passenger to brace for impact. The other two
15:14figure out the code and go inside the cockpit, only to find the pilot's dead. The stewardess tries to
15:19pilot the plane, but it crashes. Suddenly, two people appear and it becomes obvious that the plane
15:25accident was a simulation. A disembodied voice tells one of the people from the simulation that
15:30Zoe's and Ben's tickets were intercepted and that the game continues.
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