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At the end the main character thinks all his friends have been killed by a sadistic gang so when he runs into the boss of that gang he batters him, naturally. He kills him all while his friends, whose deaths were just part of a big ruse to prank the main character, just stands there watching with their mouths open. At least fifteen people just stands watching while their best friend is in the process of killing an innocent guy. And it is totally their fault that he kills him.

Up until the end the movie was quite alright, an ok hostel rip off with a bit of social media thrown in there. Perfectly fine. But oh my god what a stupid ending. They planned this prank so meticulously and yet they didn't think about having someone else than the main antagonist doing the big reveal?? Perhaps one of his best friends would have been a better choice.. Maybe? The ending brought the movie from approx 6/10 down to 3/10.

By the way, I recognize the main arc of the story from a great episode of Twilight Zone I saw 30 years ago. It's the one where a woman is secretly planning her husbands birthday party and he thinks she is cheating on him (because of all the secret phone calls and hush-hush). And so he kills her on the day of the celebration and drags her body into a room where all his friends are just waiting to get the party started. Haha. Exactly the same ending. But that episode was so much better than this movie. Thank you for reading this far. All the best /Leif.

Popular social media personality Cole (Keegan Allen) does crazy stunts. Following popular demand, he goes to Moscow not knowing what his friends had planned. He brings along girlfriend Erin (Holland Roden) who has never left America other than Mexico. The group is going to an escape room run by Russian playboy Alexei.

Cole is deliberately annoying and I wouldn't mind him dead. That's my initial reaction to his character. I do wish for Cole to be killed right away and we start following Erin in her struggle to survive. I wonder if he could be played as a more self-aware character. If he's quieter and smarter in real life, he would be more interesting. His social media personality could be a performance. Instead, this character is not appealing enough nor smartly written enough.

The initial escape room is fine even with Cole's lackadaisical attitude and that attitude is frustrating as heck. It does have a sense of Saw feels. When the turn happens, I predicted the twist pretty quickly. The elevator shaft did throw me off for a stretch but I didn't care enough about the movie to think too hard on it. The reveal did not create any shock or surprise. That's the issue with this whole movie. It never made me care enough about these characters or their predicament. It's a problem buried in the film's basic genetics.

Honestly not bad. For a thriller/horror, it worked on me. I was definitely stressing. Overall, I'm not mad I watched this!

Spoilers sort of start here:

The acting was solid from all actors, and while it is a bit unrealistic, it was believable enough (I'm assuming this movie was inspired by that abduction/murder prank that youtuber did years ago)!

The end was actually a twist for me. I was definitely following the dark web storyline, and while the thought it was all fake crossed my mind, I couldn't believe Erin (the gf) was in on it.

It left me wondering what would happen afterwards. Could you forgive your friends? How heavy would your sentence be? And would you have reacted the same? (My answers would be: no, surely not that heavy, and absolutely yes).

Anyway - not a bad movie :)

I'll be honest. I read spoilers before watching the movie. Since I knew the ending, I fast forwarded some boring parts. This one will stay with me for a while. Why did Cole's friends plan such a horrific prank on him? Did they not think it was going way too far and that he might snap? Why did they send the main 'bad guy' Alexei to tell Cole it was fake? This guy set everything up, so technically it was his fault Cole's friends were 'murdered'. Of course Cole is going to beat the crap out of the person responsible for the torture and death of his friends. You can tell the moment Cole has a mental break, when Thomas dies. He is NOT responsible for his actions in killing Alexei and would probably be able to plead temporary insanity. His ridiculous 'friends' should pay the price instead.

Ugh This movie will mess with you. I can't stop thinking about the ending. What Cole did was horrific, but understandable. By that time, he had snapped mentally. Who wouldn't, while watching all of their "friends" be tortured and murdered? Cole was probably thinking kill or he killed at that point. It's keeps replaying in my mind and I hate that. A better ending for me would've been if Cole had been aware of the prank all along. His friends thought they were so clever, but Cole finds out and pranks them by "killing" Alexei. Then when the friends come out to show Cole they are actually alive, they'd still get the shock of Him killing someone. But then he could be like, surprise! You think y'all could REALLY pull one over on me? Then Alexei, the double agent, hops up still alive. Sadly, that didn't happen and now Cole will have to live with that brutal act forever. No one in this group will ever be the same, that's for sure. And neither will I, for at least a couple weeks. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

This movie is nothing worth remembering. I enjoy Holland Rosen as an actress; so I gave it a go. The story is "been there, done that" 100% nothing new.

The lead is absolutely horrible at acting; but that's nothing new either as he was when he had part in Pretty Little Liars as Toby also. 5 years later and zero improvement on acting skills.

The story is predictable and the ending is absolutely trash. A whole room of friends that weren't really killed standing around in the dark as they watch their best friend murder the man he thought had killed them all- only top pop up after all "surprise; you were pranked" only to gasp at the dead man on the ground and then cut to credits.

It was a brainless way to fill time but made entirely unbearable by the ending.

This movie was entertaining; it really was. But in this case I never believed that the group was in any real danger. Usually my wife catches on to this kind of stuff, but in this case it was the other way around. Up to the end she was sceptical about my assumption but in the end I seemed to be right.

The conclusion (where Cole kills Aleski) could have been a little different as far as I am concerned, I think a light-hearted fun ending would have done it more good than this ending, but judge for yourself. You will most likely be entertained for 90 minutes or so. I would have liked a Punk'd ending more that this Punk'd gone wrong ending. Why didn't anyone stop him?

All in all an fun movie but when you see the ending coming after the first 15 minutes, it takes away the suspense...

I pay to see this crap so you don't have to. I'm doing you a solid on this sequel to "Escape Club" by saving you both money and precious time. That movie had some merits, but none of these characters have redeemable features and you hope they all die a horrible death. The build up prelude character building for the first 20 minutes is a complete waste of time, just start at the Escape Room and dial it up a notch. Lousy acting, aimed at 12 year olds & predictable script...that sums it up in a nutshell. I'd be surprised if you don't guess the ending in the first half hour. It's a wannabe "Saw" and "Hostel" torture fest set in Moscow, Russia with a mindless, selfish Social Media Influencer as the hero. He doesn't get it, but he would if he'd watched Michael Douglas in "The Game", because this movie is a bad xerox copy....but the printer ink ran low. Please give me some brain food 'cos this ain't it. First movie I've seen on the big screen since World War C started and cinemas reopened was very disappointing.