How Escape Room 2 Resurrects (& Ruins) The Originals Best Character

How Escape Room 2 Resurrects (& Ruins) The Original’s Best Character

Escape Room 2: Tournament of Champions surprisingly resurrects a thought-dead original movie character, but sadly ruins them in the process.

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How Escape Room 2 Resurrects (& Ruins) The Originals Best Character

The sequel Escape Room 2: Tournament of Champions surprisingly resurrects a presumed-dead character from the original movie, but sadly ruins them in the process. Directed by Adam Robitel, helmer of the acclaimed indie horror effort The Taking of Deborah Logan, Escape Room proved to be a true sleeper hit in 2019. Met with mediocre reviews from critics and released in the traditional Hollywood dumping ground of January, Escape Room was a big success with horror fans, bringing in a whopping $155 million on a budget of only $9 million.

With that kind of return on investment, an Escape Room 2 became inevitable, and sure enough, one was quickly greenlit. Tournament of Champions ended up going down a bumpy road to release though, suffering multiple delays due to the Coronavirus pandemic that – among many other things – threw Hollywood’s release plans out the window. Only now is the schedule of new movies starting to stabilize. It remains to be seen if Escape Room 2 will prove to be the financial juggernaut the original was, but Sony certainly hopes so.

Like the original movie, Escape Room 2 comes complete with several interesting, and sometimes surprising plot twists as the titular game unfolds. Perhaps the biggest of these is the shocking return of Amanda (played by Deborah Ann Woll, Daredevil’s Karen Page), who appeared to fall down a long shaft to her certain demise last time out. It turns out she’s still very much alive, and fans will initially be glad to see her. Unfortunately, things go downhill from there.

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It’s eventually revealed in the first Escape Room that every participant was the sole survivor of a tragic event, and Amanda was no different, having survived an IED attack while serving in the Iraq War that killed the rest of her unit. While she suffers from understandable PTSD as a result, Amanda is shown to be a capable, resourceful person from early on, readily offers friendship and comfort to the younger Zoey, and later deliberately sacrifices herself to ensure the rest of the group survives a particular room trap. She’s arguably the most likable character in the whole movie, and on paper, bringing her back sounds like a great move.

Unfortunately, the Amanda seen in Escape Room 2 is a mentally broken shell of her former self, having been forced by the evil corporation Minos into constructing the game that Zoey, Ben, and the new players find themselves inside. The goal is to use her to convince Zoey to join Minos and design future games. While she worked with them under duress in order to protect her endangered daughter Sonya, this compliant Amanda is still a bit hard to root for, and doesn’t feel like the same character at all. While it’s unclear if she survives the sequel, her sad fate also feeds into another big problem with Escape Room 2: the ridiculous power level and world-manipulating capabilities of Minos. When Amanda insists to Zoey that she has no hope of ever beating Minos, and then basically turns out to be right, at least for now, it leaves the viewer less looking forward to an Escape Room 3 and more wondering what the point is in watching another futile attempt at heroism.

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