![]() ![]() But, despite everything, you will have a fun time. You already know what is going to happen to everyone, and you don’t care. The film has some hideous moment because death traps lack some meaning. And because the protagonists are crazy. We have a ‘nerd’ (Nik Dodani), a smartass (Jason Ellis), a truck driver (Tyler Labine), a war vet (Deborah Ann Woll), an alcoholic (Logan Miller), and a college girl (Taylor Russell). ![]() And this is what something ‘familiar’ to the title can do, that there is not too much fear, nor too much plot, nor does it end up worrying us (it sounds fatal to say, but it is) if a character lives or dies it doesn’t generate too much empathy. We will indeed entertain ourselves with the games and the protagonists’ clues – for example the billiards part is the most ingenious. But this one is quite loose. Although it draws on similar classics such as ‘Cube,’ ‘Fermat’s room’ or even ‘Saw,’ there is no real fear, and the script takes us again and again to the same part when half an hour has passed of the film perhaps the argument would have given something more of itself with more desire. These six people are tricked into being invited to participate in a game where they could win a significant financial prize. All of them are cited in a Chicago building four men and two women meet inside, in a waiting room, and realize they are locked up. The only way to get out of there will be to gather hidden clues to escape and survive.Īdam Robitel is the director specializing in horror films: his third title in the genre after ‘The Taking’ (2014) and ‘Insidious: the last key’ (2018).
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