The twist at the end was a bit surprising.
Everyone who ever held and shot a real gun (military personel for example) must realize though, that this would never work in real life.
a) Gunshots make a very distinct and next to unfakable sound
b) Bullets hitting their target also make sounds - especially when its a skull.
b) A Gun pressed to the head is EXTREMLY dangerous, even when it fires a blank - NEVER!!! do that!!!
c) A gun fired in close quarters is extremly loud (they are actually always VERY loud) - without protection you should be deaf for a second or two
There are other points, but those were the first I thought of.
Even if we forget about all of that.
What idiot had the idea to let Cole be welcomed by the one person he must hold responsible for all of this?
Of course he is going to immediately attack him - and it was pretty obvious who would win a fight between those two even without Cole being superhigh on adrenaline...
Any of the people he thought were dead would have been a good idea - so he immediately realizes it was fake.
It could still have been pretty entertaining if the characters were likeable at all.
Cole is unsympathetic from the getgo, Thomas and Sam seemed to be only in there so it wouldn't be all but one white people - I mean really what purpouse did they serve storywise?
Dash seemed to be reckless and responsible until the twist. (And even more reckless afterwards - but then he at least shared it...)
The only one who was likeable out of all of them was Erin. That was until the twist - people doing shit like that are just plain assholes - sry for the language...
After she "died" I literally was only interested in the ending, since I didn't give a f*** about any of the other characters...
Finally, i found an Escape Room inside of a Hostel...
What an experience going into this film blind. Truly awful, an actually bad movie. I normally am pretty forgiving to movies, as long as I have a good time I don't rate it this low.
This is a movie about vlogger Cole, who is celebrating 10 years of vlogging and 1 million followers. His friends take him on a trip to Moscow, Russia as a surprise to do an escape room like nothing he has experienced ever before(!).
My first point is the story, I thought it was a good idea but all of it felt really formulaic and nothing was really that revolutionary. There are sections of the story that remind me of "video game logic" - like when Cole throws a pipe to distract the enemy. I thought the traps were interesting and the first set of puzzles for Cole to solve to rescue his friends were really stressful and scary. I loved that a lot. I liked the unusual setting (who sets a movie in Russia!), and I liked the integration with modern culture - online streaming. HOWEVER, the streaming effects were not that great - the hearts and thumbs up are reflective of Facebook live streaming - and they do that thing where they pop text up on the screen for a second and play clips - but it's a live stream so IDK how they do that. It was all a bit cheesy.
The characters are pretty racially diverse but not very well developed. Even less developed for a horror movie than expected. Cole's friend is a massive douche and every moment on screen made me hate him more. Cole is a childish and extroverted streamer. His friend Thomas and girlfriend Erin have almost no development, and the black chick also has no development at all. This means none of the deaths are impactful or upsetting, they aren't really even that graphic because you only see them from afar. Cole takes it very hard and sits down to cry a few times. Felt like a waste when he could've been trying to rescue the other people instead.
The effects are all around pretty awful and so is the continuity. In one particular scene they spliced clips and the blood changes on the character's face between shots. It was not believable or real-looking. I guess this can play into the story more rather than just be chalked up to poor effects. I did like the twist ending. I think that was the only reason I gave this 3 stars. Not worth a watch. Sucked.
Basically a really shitty version of The Game
DO NOT WATCH THIS! Literally nothing about this movie is original.
Watch "The Game" with Michael Douglas instead.
Depending on what you expect out of Season 2 of Scare Pewdiepie this might be a "OKish" watch but ultimately I wasn't really that engaged in it. They certainly surprised me with how visceral they started out the game but the rest of the movie didn't really match that. It was setup as the "ultimate" escape room experience but the main guy certainly didn't handle this like a VLOGger would nor were there really any "puzzles" justifying that title. I also noticed the same as @catsy did; certain parts felt extremely stealth game-esque rather than cinematic. There also happens some stupid "horror" movie stuff which sealed the "meh" experience for me (but most of that can be explained away by the twist). That twist they're able to hide quite well imho since it's layered but it also opens the movie up for even more plotholes... it's frankly just not believable that they managed to trick him with all those FX without him noticing that it's all bullsh*t.
Someone tried to remake The Game (1997, Michael Douglas) with social media influenzas and failed horribly.
Thanks to all the a-holes here who compared this film with "the Game", spoiling the film. Congratulations, dick heads
5/10
I've seen better
And own much much
Better, it's not a terrible movie
and a worth a once watch but that
Cole just annoyed the
Hella out of me,
Could not stand that lead actor at all.
I really like these types of movies too but
Cole just killed it for me and the more he was
onscreen the more I was
Clock-watching.
One of the worst movies at all time.
When the rich and famous YouTube influencer discovers his surprise party is in an escape room, he cringes. How does he think we feel?
Here we are, trapped in this film with no way out and the problem is, no amount of puzzle solving will set us free -- because we figured it out at the beginning. A predictable script, actors out of their depth and the requisite punch line at the end helps us understand why they changed the movie's name (from No Way Out to Follow Me) in order to protect its innocence.
Not as good as it thinks it is...a little like the deluded folks you probably follow on social media.
It’s very very very bad movie
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Also known as "No Escape". This is basically any Escape Room movie combined with The Game . Overall, I liked this one a whole lot better than most of the escape room movies that are out there now.