Escape Room 2

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (known for international markets as Escape Room 2, Escape Room: No Way Out, and Escape Room 2: Deadly Game) is a 2021 American horror challenge survival film that is a sequel to the 2019 film Escape Room, it was again directed by Adam Robitel and screenplay by Oren Uziel, Maria Melnik, Daniel Tuch, and Will Honley. It stars Taylor Russell and Logan Miller and follows a group of six people trying to survive a new series of more deadly escape rooms. It was released on July 16, 2021 by Columbia Pictures, to box office success again and a critical mixed. Only contains a theatrical and extended cut version in the Blu-Ray release, following an extended cut is released on October 5, 2021.
== Plot==
After escaping the "sole survivor" escape rooms orchestrated by the Minos Corporation, Zoey Davis and Ben Miller decide to confront the shadowy organization after finding coordinates to their New York City-based headquarters in Minos' logo. Zoey is encouraged by her therapist to move on from her trauma and to get over her aerophobia but Zoey opts to drive with Ben instead of flying.
The pair find the Minos headquarters derelict and are accosted by a vagrant who steals Zoey's necklace. She and Ben give chase, being led into a subway train car and stuck inside. The train car separates from the rest of the train and is redirected to a remote station. The train seals Zoey, Ben, and other passengers Rachel, Brianna, Nathan, and Theo inside. Minos reveal themselves to be yet again pulling the strings and the train becomes electrified, becoming another escape room. Zoey and Ben learn that the others are survivors of previous Minos escape rooms.
The group realizes they have to collect subway tokens to escape the train as it rapidly gets more electrified. Theo is killed while the others manage to escape. As the group rest, Nathan reveals his escape room group were all priests, Brianna's were all influencers, and Rachel's consisted of people who didn't feel physical pain.
The survivors enter the next room, a bank room with a slowly closing vault and a deadly laser security system. Deciphering a complex route to get around the lasers, Nathan suffers a crisis of faith and knocks himself unconscious, activating the lasers. The group manages to figure out the route and escape with Nathan. While in the room, Zoey is perplexed by frequent references to someone called Sonya and the fact the escape rooms don't have any connection to the group.
The next room is a beach complete with a shack, lighthouse, and more references to Sonya. As the group starts to figure out puzzles, the beach is revealed to be covered in quicksand. Nathan sacrifices himself to save Rachel and is swallowed up by the sand. As Zoey figures out the room's puzzle, she finds an alternate route out of the escape room just as Brianna unlocks the intended exit to the room. An argument between the group breaks out with Rachel and Ben siding with Zoey. Brianna escapes through the main exit while Rachel and Ben traverse the quicksand to the alternate route. Ben sinks beneath the quicksand and is seemingly killed.
Zoey and Rachel mourn the others and vow to take Minos down. They make their way out through a manhole into the city but they quickly realize they are still in the game when they encounter a panicked Brianna who tells them that acid rain is periodically being sprayed into the room. The group figure out the room's puzzle and open a cab to escape in but once Zoey enters, the cab locks Rachel and Brianna out. Zoey falls into the next room while Rachel and Brianna eventually succumb to the rain.
The next room; a children's bedroom contains a diary from Sonya revealing the rooms are based on a fun day out she had with her mother. Sonya's mother is revealed to be Amanda who had actually survived her fall in the "sole survivor" game and was forced into making rooms for Minos after they abducted Sonya.
Amanda appears in the room and begs Zoey to become the next puzzle maker for Minos. Ben also appears in the room trapped in a cage. When Zoey refuses, Ben's cage starts rapidly filling up with water but Zoey and Amanda work together to free Ben. They start a fire in the escape room and manage to break out, fleeing the facility.
The trio report their findings to the police who retrieve the bodies of Rachel, Brianna, Nathan, and Theo, and the news about Minos goes public. Zoey's necklace is retrieved by an FBI agent who assures her that Minos will be tracked down thanks to Amanda's testimony.
Filled with confidence, Zoey decides to take a plane home with Ben. Onboard, Zoey realizes that the plane is another escape room set up by Minos. Both Zoey and Ben are incapacitated by sleeping gas while the unseen Gamemaster mocks the pair for falling into their latest trap.
=== Extended cut version===
In the extended cut, the film opens with Henry, revealed to be a designer of the escape rooms. When his wife Sonya threatens to divorce him and take their daughter Claire with her, she is killed after being trapped in a sauna.
Later in the film, when there is a malfunction during the Acid Rain room's transition, Zoey is taken to a department of Minos where she meets Claire, who turns out to be the actual puzzle maker. Claire has been locked up in a room by her father, who is one of the higher-ups in Minos and who has forced her to create elaborate escape rooms after which he has taken all of the credit. Claire begs Zoey to help her get out of the room. Up until that point Zoey has been hesitant, until it is revealed Ben has been saved by Claire who created a secret compartment under the quicksand for him to fall into. However, Ben is found by Henry's men and thrown into the final room: a sauna. With Zoey's help Claire manages to break out, and is then met by her father. Zoey and Claire succeed in fighting Claire's father off and they save Ben. Claire locks the Minos employees inside the control room, and suggests Zoey report her findings to the police.
After Zoey escapes to the original location where she finds Ben in an ambulance, it is revealed that Claire was evil all along. When she was younger, she tried to be as evil as possible in an attempt to see if her parents truly loved her as she is. When her mother Sonya said that she was getting her help by sending her away, Claire murdered her in the sauna. Claire ultimately traps her father in her old room and kills him. It is suggested that she will be the series' villain moving forward.
== Cast ==
*Taylor Russell as Zoey Davis
*Logan Miller as Ben Miller
*Thomas Cocquerel as Nathan
*Holland Roden as Rachel Ellis
* Carlito Olivero as Theo
*Indya Moore as Brianna Collier
*Deborah Ann Woll as Amanda Harper (theatrical cut version; extended cut version of end credits only)
*Isabelle Fuhrman as Claire (extended cut version)
*James Frain as Henry (extended cut version)
* Tanya van Graan as Sonya (extended cut version; uncredited)
* Jay Ellis as Jason Walker (archive footage) 
*Tyler Labine as Mike Nolan (archive footage) 
*Nik Dodani as Danny Khan (archive footage)
*Yorick van Wageningen as Gamemaster (archive footage) 
*Lucy Newman-Williams as Zoey's therapist (theatrical cut version) 
*Scott Coker as FBI agent (theatrical cut version)
*Matt Esof as the vagrant (both cut version)
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