Activate the adrenaline, and that's up to Neil S. H. Moretz.
As a gold medal producer in Hollywood, Moretz's films, such as "Fast and Furious", "Extreme Agent", "Prison Break", etc., are known for thrills and have long been listed as classics.
In January 2019, the movie "Room Escape", directed by Adam Robbitell and starring Tylerla Sel, Logan Miller and others, was quietly released, a real, thrilling and exciting large-scale escape game that won 231 million at the domestic box office, becoming the "box office champion of imported thrillers in Chinese film history" that year.
This time, Moretz's thrilling dark horse sequel "Room Escape 2" parachuted into the Qingming Long Holiday, which will be released in the mainland on April 2, and many viewers have been looking forward to it.
Official poster for Escape from the Vault 2
After all, Moretz once said in an interview: "We don't want the beginning of the movie to be more exciting than the end!" This sentence alone has already made the fans of "Escape Room" want to move.
01 "Winners" gather, thriller upgrades
You can always believe in Battle Royale
The good results of "Escape from the Chamber of Secrets" are beyond expectations and reasonable.
From niche to broken circles, escape rooms have long become the preferred choice for young people's offline entertainment and decompression, which is itself a soil suitable for the growth of thriller stories.
In "Escape Room", the frozen human body limit, the upside-down space of gambling on life, and the deformed strange house that tortures human nature will turn the original escape room into an escape game with a life hanging in the balance.
Stills from "Escape from the Chamber of Secrets"
With win-or-die game rules, more thrilling and full of dramatic conflict, Escape from The Chamber 2 continues this naturally appealing setting.
Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2 begins with the story ending of the first part, with the survivors as the protagonists. The two who escaped from the "Minos" chamber are reunited, carrying the task of pulling out the controller behind the scenes, thus allowing the protagonist to complete a passive to active identity transformation.
Screenshot from the Escape Room movie
But even so, the game participants, including the protagonist, fell into the deadly chamber - the train that was originally running smoothly suddenly disconnected, and in this train, there happened to be six "old players" who were forced to participate, thus opening up another escape from the chamber.
Official stills from Escape Room 2
The layoutr calculates everything in place, and the audience from the same perspective as the protagonist group experiences a feeling of being played in the palm of the hand and having nowhere to escape, which makes the scalp tingle.
Compared with the gore of other battle royale films and televisions, the cool upgrade of "Escape Room 2" is also reflected in the immersion of character shaping and level structure, which is also the winning magic weapon of "Escape Room".
Among the old players, except for the two survivors in the first part, everyone does not know each other, and their personalities are very different and distinct. Different from the previous game, "Escape room 2" abandons the narrative method of memory and plot parallel, without the assistance of background identity, "Escape Room 2" also has to think about how to portray a three-dimensional character image in a shorter period of time.
"Battle Royale" seems to be a tried-and-true creative theme, and the simple and rough narrative rhythm is easier to make people catch their heads. In Guan Guan's deadly life and death challenge, the film portrays the real humanity in the extreme environment. Not conventionally, Escape from the Jungle 2 leaves aside the fight for survival and shows more synergy – the participants take the mastermind behind the scenes as a common enemy.
02 Climaxes, sensory impact
"Escape room 2" to pinch the "cool point"
The chambers of secrets here can really kill people.
High concept, thriller, escape, confined space. Whether you're a fan of hardcore thrillers or an escape room enthusiast, DNA is already on the move.
Compared with the current hot, the brain-burning chamber with static braking, the "Escape Room 2" at the cost of life is an atypical chamber. As a thriller, the bloodiness and violence of "Escape room 2" are within range, but electric shocks, burning, corrosion... In addition to the challenges of life and death, the film also has a more detailed and touching presentation. Just like the 10,000-volt voltage on the disconnected subway in the trailer, the scorching laser of the underground bank, the people-eating quicksand of the hot beach, and the acid rain of the city that corrodes the human body, the film focuses on the expression of the word "immersion", which makes people feel the pain of fist to flesh on both visual and psychological levels.
The pain and despair of the participants in their fears, combined with the occasional "jump scare", was enough to bring an intracranial orgasm to the audience. This is exactly what makes "Escape room 2" fascinating, it makes people grit their teeth and frown, but there is an impulse that drives you to look at it.
Sudden death, sacrifice to save people, helplessness to let acid rain erode... The instantaneous actions of the participants in the thrilling chamber boost the climax of the film again and again.
In "Escape Room 2", social metaphors are relatively weakened, and more consideration is given to serving the audience's audiovisual experience, which also achieves a high-density cool point of "Escape room 2".
But in retrospect, you can also realize some things, such as the violent and attack sections in "Room Escape 2", most of which are completed by mechanical manipulation, and people can be put to death without blood, thus highlighting the cruelty and indifference of human beings - whether it is the designer of the chamber or the so-called game viewer, people are the source of evil.
03 Layer by layer reverse, praise is overwhelming
It's worth a trip to the theater to find out
In addition to solving the main line of solving the puzzle and escaping from the chamber, "Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2" also adds a new story line - at the beginning of the film, the time goes back to 2003, when the woman and her husband who was obsessed with studying the chamber of secrets had a dispute, and then died in the sauna.
Such a start is a bit confusing, but it actually lays a role worth looking forward to.
The psychologically twisted genius girl was played by Isabella Fuhrman in the later stage, and she had a brilliant performance in "Orphan Grudge", and this time starred in "Escape room 2", which promoted the plot reversal of the second half, which added a bit of horror to the atmosphere of the film.
Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2
There are many examples of thrillers making sequels, there are not a few who make a hilarious perfunctory thing, and after the theatrical version of "Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2" was released in North America, the feedback received was "cool and pure", "creative and nervous coexisting", "more exciting, sweaty palms", "very reversed"... It is not too much to summarize with rave reviews.
The widely circulated streaming version of "Escape room 2", the ending came to an abrupt end, and the unfilled pit left the audience with a series of question marks, which may be one of the reasons why the Douban score is only 6.2. It is reported that the theatrical version of the film and the streaming version not only have differences in the plot, but also have completely different endings. How will the protagonist's showdown with the Minos Chamber end? Is it the protagonist who reverses the situation or the person behind the Chamber of Secrets who falls into the net? Maybe you can get the answer in the theatrical version of the film.
Leaving aside the fresh plot of the theatrical version, as a thriller with the concept of "Chamber of Secrets", "Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2" is shocking just the trailer. "Escape room 2" is not large, but It is committed to making the audience also immersed in this escape game.
Characters with distinct personalities, layers of reversals in the plot, thrilling and high-energy scenes... Presented on the big screen, the audience will definitely get a more enjoyable audiovisual experience, but also live up to the "immersion" created by the film, friends who like this kind of film,