god after watching the saw movies, watching people ACTUALLY work together (or at least attempt to work together) when trapped in a dire situation is refreshing
Anyone can look at a horror movie and say "here's how to not die: don't do (insert stupid mistake)" But you take it a step further and say "okay, you've made the stupid mistake. Here's how you can still survive:" which I find really intriguing.
I’m glad the video is laid out this way. These types of videos are created assuming you already know what’s gonna happen, which is never the case in a movie like this
This movie reminded me of this one time my family and I entered a real escape room. It was from a small company and they forgot that they left us in the room after it closed. When the time ran out, no one had entered the room to let us out. And all of our "hint calls" were used up. So we had to escape ourselves. We kind of just guessed everything. When we left, we realised it was closed so we called the number of the escape room to let us out. It was kind of jarring after watching this movie. So yeah. The theme of the escape room was trying to find out what happened to missing people who entered it so yeah, it was pretty scary.
One issue: Defibrillators don't increase heart rate; they correct irregular heart rate (fibrillation) Speeding up heart rate using a defibrillator is like trying to make a car go faster by turning the steering wheel
If anything i wouldve been slapping him over and over and shouting at him and such to get his heart racing Wouldnt have killed him as easily and would have a more realistic effect
@@fluffybum204 I thought originally when I was watching they were gonna hurt him enough to get his heart racing without hurting him too much to the point he was severely injured or dies. I thought it was a pretty stupid and rash choice that didn’t make much sense for characters who were somewhat smart and worked together pretty well throughout the movie. I just think they needed to kill Mike off quickly and just came up with that.
How to beat the escape room: don’t accept a random invite from some mysterious organization you don’t know promising 10k with no actual proof you will even actually receive 10k. The characters in this movie did the equivalent of clicking on a pop up ad promising a Best But gift card in flashing red letters of hot singles in their area.
it's kind of strange that you missed out on it, but in the winter place, they could LITERALLY use this metal box to break the door and go inside, like it's a door made out of old planks, you could even break it after some kicking
the ending was so dumb, they managed to get rid of an ice lake, a big ass elevator shaft and bar, an oven room, and a hospital before the end of the day??
the thing is, that it was all an simulation, as you saw in the room with the ice, when Danny tried to run to the other end of the ice, he fell and it made the simulation break a little
They most likely had prepared pretty elaborate ways to clean up the rooms after they were done. At least to me, it doesn't really break my immersion to imagine that an organization powerful enough to set these rooms up in the first place also would have deviced a way to dispose of them.
@@simonO712 Did you see that furnace. You'd probably need a crane to get it out. And there's just so much stuff for like 10 people to clean up. You can't hire a construction firm unless you intend on murdering all the employees.
14:40 Fun fact, gladiator battles were rarely fought to the death because gladiators were expensive and most were taught to subdue their opponent. They even had a referee who made sure that the fight was fair.
Criminals (noxii) were condemned to death in the arena and were often armed/dressed like gladiators, but everyone watching knew they weren't the real thing and they were only there to get murdered ie, not a fight to the death but an execution
"Hey [Friend/Family name], theres this kinda sketchy escape room im going to do so if you dont hear from me in like 2 hours please call 911 to [this location]. Thanks." Always tell someone if youre going somewhere new or dangerous. So many lives are saved yearly by telling a friend or family what hike youre going on and when you'll be back. Its so important to have one person at least knowing where you are. If youre going to be stupid, be stupid smartly.
Blood, Vomit, THE DIRT FROM PLANTS, anything they wore in (necklace, ring, bracelet) like damn. if it can fit in a glass youre good. OR AS HE SUGGESTED - JUST STACK BOOKS ON TOP OF THE GLASSES
@@surviver5738 i think there are special cell lines and signals reserved for emergency services, so that you can get connected wherever you are, might be wrong though
I know this is totally unrelated, butyou explain the intrigue of football to me? I'm not bashing you for liking or whatever I just wanna know what you see in it that I don't
@@FalseProphetFallacy different things appeal to different people - many think that baseball is boring to watch, but playing the sport for 12 years left me with an undying love for it, and I don't think it's boring at all. it all depends on the person, really. it could've been a relative that really liked it and gotten them into the sport, they may have played it, or they just enjoy the action and excitement in game. to each their own
@@FalseProphetFallacy It's probably just a matter of personal preference. For me, I've always enjoyed football because it can be interesting to see all the different strategies and how they can alter the course of the game, although I'm sure that's different for everyone as well.
@@parkerberube606 I never understood the appeal of watching other people play a sport and cheering them on when you don’t know anyone from the team personally 😂
@@FalseProphetFallacy i dont think you can appreciate it without watching it for awhile. The more you know about the game, the more interesting it gets. Because of strategies, players, coaches etc.
I remember watching this movie when it came out as part of a "shitty spooky movies night" and it was actually decent for a movie based on a huge gimmick. Not a great movie, but still was pretty entertaining for what it was. Easy 6/10 if you haven't watched it I would at least give it a try.
Yea, and it'd be preety interesting and smart if Jason wouldn't actually start looking for the kid, just focused on the key. That'd make it seem more like he doesn't actually care for the kid and just wants as many people as possible to live, so he lies to Amanda, instead of there being a current that works like the ocean in Moana :/
@@sr.toastybuns302 I dont think the lighter counts, cuz as seen with the oven room, cheating the puzzle is allowed, since they filled the last glass with a flask of alcohol, (which wasn’t provided in the room itself) plus, how do u use a lighter as evidence lol, pretty sure the police would just chalk it up to you being a smoker or smthn Though i do agree with the phone, that’s one end too lose to leave untied
Well it is shown that Jason doesn't care about others and will do everything to save his own life. From his view the kid is dead so he just moves on to make it out without endangering himself or other party members that could still be useful in next rooms .Pretty much all the rooms connect to the past of the people there(like the Rudolf code). It is revealed that in past Jason killed his friend so he could survive. That is also why he was so fast to electrocute the guy to death if it would help him to get out. So I do not think it was lazy writing just him calculating the best scenario to get out. Even if they could get him out of the water he would be just slowing them down.
I was a huge fan of this movie, some of the deaths and events felt sort of forced, like the drowning one. There were a lot of options. Dont throw a lighter onto and ice lake. Remember you’re on an icelake and keep your body weight more evenly distributed. When he goes under shatter the ice with the block. Pick the best swimmer send them in to get him, have them hook that magnet around there waste so they have a guide line to get back to the hole. Literally anything was better than “THERES A CURRENT ITS TOO LATE”.
Well the way he threw the lighter was dumb. Just throw it through air. But the other points are kinda moot. After the first room they still thought it is just a game even though more realistic than other rooms. And they would probably figure a way to reach him, but Jason stopped them because he figured out the kid would just slow them down after being submerged in freezing water and almost drowning.
With the way the ice breaks I was under the impression that it was done on purpose. It kinda doesn’t give any “warning” cracks at all and breaks in a perfect circle conveniently where the lighter is. I think the game maker saw the lighter and knew they had to get rid of it somehow cause it would’ve helped them to melt the ice quickly. It doesn’t seem like that far fetched of an idea given that they are able to create these elaborate rooms that are essentially giant oven and have breakaway floors triggered by a phone rings. Also the ice doesn’t break anywhere else at all even when there’s a lot of weight on it and when it’s literally being stomped on.
The movie would actually have improved if they had fail attempts for 25% of this video. There were some obvious things I would have thought to do in the moment so it would be more effective to see those fail and the audience feels more shocked by their creative solutions. It had a good lil amount for me. Thanks Zoe.
In the black and white room, if they all made it, I think Mike or Amanda would be strong enough to open it by them self, that way only one person touches the poison and they can use the Antidote
I like how you go over the puzzles from a perspective where you DON'T know everything in hindsight. Of course, as the audience, it's easy to think that we'd know better, but we have the benefit of hindsight, which the characters don't. So thanks for this particular layout.
8:47 My grandma (and my mom) always put their money under their bra, I wonder why amanda thinking skin tight jeans pocket will handle such a ball shaped thing? Could have just tied the handle inside her shirt or something
@@rosestar1324 I know right. There is no reason to be ashamed. But you know bad writer be like "Lets kill this character for the plot" by doing dumb thing.
@@sliceoflife3611 in my opinion, I think it’s scarier to do the logical thing but still end up being killed because you were out smarted by the killer. If you’re dumb and get killed, you were just dumb. And whether they know or not, all audiences think they have some sort of intelligence.
The sequel should be called "Escape Tomb" because the word "tomb" sounds like the words "two" and "room" mixed together also everyone dies and is buried
Love how they have an entire cottage full of options the melt the ice block, like a fireplace and more. So of course sitting on it outside was the most logical choice.
Same only difference is that I searched for escape room on youtube to watch reviews on it after I just watched the movie, and coincidentally HitStart just posted this video about it on the same day I watched it not too long ago lol.
Zoey was a literal genius she stayed calm and was very careful she was very aware of her surrounding's and that's exactly what you need to do in this game
My guess is that the pilot and crew are blackmailed or promised a large sum of cash to test the installed or prototype plane. The people on board are civilians with destinations. Maybe targeted or filtered with targeted advertising. The real trick is getting the main character to get onto the one plane, possibly by playing the Main into a puzzle, to find the right flight to take. A filter only the Main would understand. This is also a way to tie up a loose end, as the Main is very persistent in uncovering, yet also very willing to solve their puzzles. Idk just an idea.
The epilogue section makes mentions that they have effectively transferred the flights of the main characters to a different one, it can be assumed that they setup a flight themselves specifically for these two people.
Or they may be tricked into going on a fake flight that has just the two of them on it, and the staff shown doing the simulated flight will be the crew on that plane.
Anyone can look at a horror movie and say "here's how to not die: don't do (insert stupid mistake)" But you take it a step further and say "okay, you've made the stupid mistake. Here's how you can still survive:" which I find really intriguing.
As others have said, the police aren't a magic number that gets through every time. Their still has to be the EM signal piercing surroundings to get to a tower, and if there is a dense enough material surrounding the signal, it will not get through, and so will not connect.
I thought this was going to be a bootleg version of Nerd Explains but you did enough to differ yourself from him. I quite enjoyed the analysis of this how to beat.
Do keep in mind that while Nerd Explains's How to Beat IS pretty good, he did NOT invent the How to Beat genre of videos. Assuming HitStart's was a "bootleg" just sounds disrespectful since these sort of videos are only done by a handful of other TH-camrs in the first place.
@@huvothoughts You didn’t read my comment throughly did you? I *praised* him for differing himself from Nerd Explains and I never said he made the genre. He however did *popularized* it imo. He gets millions of views each video and was one of the earliest people doing them. So saying he popularized them is fair to say.
For those who don't know you can still call 911 even if you don't have signal, as the phone will automatically connect to the nearest tower regardless of your service provider and will allow you to call 911
Couldve also probably used the stuffing from the coat as kindling to atleast light a really small fire with whatever other dry ingredients they could find to speed up the ice melting process
You know, this would actually be a pretty neat escape room. A lot of interesting themes and locations along with really creative puzzles would be pretty fun to solve. Y’know, minus the pain and death of course
I think the “don’t touch anything without thinking carefully first” rule could’ve applied to the poisoned hatch. It was way too obvious of an exit so they should have considered the possibility of tactile poison.
I mean, since they had no way of knowing there was anything toxic on the handle I guess they couldn’t know before the fact, but one solution I thought of to the weird trippy room, as an outsider would be if they took off their shirts and put that on the handle before lifting
This movie reminded me of this one time my family and I entered a real escape room. It was from a small company and they forgot that they left us in the room after it closed. When the time ran out, no one had entered the room to let us out. And all of our "hint calls" were used up. So we had to escape ourselves. We kind of just guessed everything. When we left, we realised it was closed so we called the number of the escape room to let us out. It was kind of jarring after watching this movie.
Great video:) Agreed, watching people work together is essential. It's so refreshing to watch a "Saw-esque" escape-from-a-room movie, without any of the morality stuff. Just a straightforward: here's a room, here are some puzzles, solve it or die.
Someone who understands how radio waves work "You still need to be able to get a signal" Emergency calls just connect to any tower and make the call. Meaning if you didn't have signal from your provider, it would still go through. It won't do anything if you physically can't get a connection.
These are real things. You beat an escape room and get high amounts of money so its kind of believable especially for people who are aware of the existence escape rooms
Ah, yes, the series where you can get murdered, get murdered with an axe, get a virus and die, get acidified by acid showers, get your head blown off with an explosive collar, discover that you are half cyborg, and die multiple times.
9:10 Amanda would actually need to do a muscle up, not a pull up, which is much harder to get herself onto the pool table unless there was something nearby for her to put her feet on
Oh my god, how have I never heard of this movie! It's literally so interesting and even unique with everyone working together. I really gotta go watch the entire thing, thank you.
It would be good if movies like this gave viewers several options of what the characters can do with multiple plot lines/endings. I'd definitely rewatch
I think the phones just there to tell them when somethings going to fall, sorta giving them a fair chance too get a timing on how long they have before they need to use the walls ect
and i dont get why amanda didnt shove the knob in her BRA instead of POCKET??? titties hold everything. worst case, mouth? like theres better choices. she couldve taken her shirt off and tied knots with the ball in it
Man, you and CinemaSins are so likeminded. This is a direct quote from his video on the movie: "Yeah, what in this room could POSSIBLY weigh that last glass down!? Could it be... I don't know... *THE BOOKS?* I don't mean to be HEAVY-HANDED with this, but the intelligence of these people is WEIGHING DOWN the movie!"
12:47 I don’t think it would be possible to find a single drug that would cause this because in the end of the movie, when Zoey says, “When Ben wakes up, he’s confirm everything,” the detective states there were 3 illegal drugs found in his system. So clearly whatever caused the hallucinations was a mixture of many drugs, which is why the symptoms were so insane.
@@royalpain9281 well yes but after going that deep then getting him up first, it is still really likely that 1 he will die because he drowned or 2 he will die to hyperthermia unless someone else took their clothes off to warm him up because that is the fastest way to keep someone from getting hyperthermia if you have nothing else around to warm him up
@@royalpain9281 Actually ealier in that room they've established that just slightly dipping their leg in the water burns them like crazy, when it happened to Ben so I feel like even if they tried to save him I feel like they wouldn't be able to get out, even without the "current", and like HitStart said, if they went underwater, they possibly couldn't find their way back by themselves, not even counting having your eyes open in super freezing water.
@@Novarcharesk the other person fell in the water going to get it, do you think if the other guy walked from the other direction he would be safer somehow? The only way none of them would have fallen in is by throwing it and catching it
12:40 There could've been 2 drugs on the handle. The hallucinogen could've been LSD (LSD was actually discovered by a scientist who got high after handling LSD without gloves). The poison could've been any poison that is able to go systemic transdermally.
god after watching the saw movies, watching people ACTUALLY work together (or at least attempt to work together) when trapped in a dire situation is refreshing
totally agree! I actually had a short part in this video where I compare this group to the saw 2 group, but I ended up cutting it out.
@@HitStartYT You can make a separate video about it, PLEASE make it happen.
I feel that, I just rewatched Saw V and it's incredible how much they failed to work with each other, despite Jigsaw explicitly telling them to do so.
@@HitStartYT please release that as it's own video if you can
HitStart I would also like to see the video lol
“They work as a team and arent selfish”
Jigsaw would be so proud
Agreed
Too bad its not jigsaw
Yeah sad
jigsaw would also go after these rich corperations
Ya
Anyone can look at a horror movie and say "here's how to not die: don't do (insert stupid mistake)"
But you take it a step further and say "okay, you've made the stupid mistake. Here's how you can still survive:" which I find really intriguing.
I’m glad the video is laid out this way. These types of videos are created assuming you already know what’s gonna happen, which is never the case in a movie like this
the how you beat videos have really evolved over quarantine
I like it because everyone makes stupid mistakes especially in these type of situations
Ye
way to survive: dont accept the letter dumba**
How the hell did the company clean up the "Winter" set with the hundreds of gallons of Ice and trees overnight? lol
Plus, if you’ve seen the movie, the water under them is like 60 feet deep so theres absolutely no way the company could’ve emptied that
And that giant hole in the pool room
@@its_saber1525 played the move in reverse and paused, new save trick
@@henrynumberone1 why?
I think the elevator would be way more difficult
This movie reminded me of this one time my family and I entered a real escape room. It was from a small company and they forgot that they left us in the room after it closed. When the time ran out, no one had entered the room to let us out. And all of our "hint calls" were used up. So we had to escape ourselves. We kind of just guessed everything. When we left, we realised it was closed so we called the number of the escape room to let us out. It was kind of jarring after watching this movie. So yeah. The theme of the escape room was trying to find out what happened to missing people who entered it so yeah, it was pretty scary.
haha... what?! and the theme was "find out what happened to missing people" that's perfect.
@@HitStartYT I know right?
Jesus Christ, that is terrifying
I hear a lawsuit!
do you reckon the room was rigged to be like this? like there's still staff there, they're just not responding to your hint calls?
You know how funny it would be if all the protagonists just say: "Eh, what are the odds of me winning?" And then no one shows up.
I- I never thought about that 😂
Then it would be a 15-minute movie/film 😂
I would honestly say no better I'm not smart
Yes I actually know
money drives people. im sure they put up 1000million
One issue: Defibrillators don't increase heart rate; they correct irregular heart rate (fibrillation)
Speeding up heart rate using a defibrillator is like trying to make a car go faster by turning the steering wheel
That's what I was thinking
If anything i wouldve been slapping him over and over and shouting at him and such to get his heart racing
Wouldnt have killed him as easily and would have a more realistic effect
@@fluffybum204 I thought originally when I was watching they were gonna hurt him enough to get his heart racing without hurting him too much to the point he was severely injured or dies. I thought it was a pretty stupid and rash choice that didn’t make much sense for characters who were somewhat smart and worked together pretty well throughout the movie. I just think they needed to kill Mike off quickly and just came up with that.
Well it doesnt mean it wont shock you
The possible excuse is that the defibrillator caused a heart attack, but otherwise yeah
lmao the phone said "no signal" and "4G LTE" at the same time.
Yo what the fuck
you don’t even need signal to call the cops
@@faithhutcherson6847 oh yeah! You’re right😅
@@luthermorrisjr1657 emergency 911
forget about that, they got the phone of the tall military girl but they didnt asked for the phone of the ''gamer kid "
After Amanda fell she woke up in a reverse bear trap
Ha Ha good one bro
Lol
lol nice one
Or "you, you're finally awake"
Good one
How to beat the escape room: don’t accept a random invite from some mysterious organization you don’t know promising 10k with no actual proof you will even actually receive 10k.
The characters in this movie did the equivalent of clicking on a pop up ad promising a Best But gift card in flashing red letters of hot singles in their area.
LMAOO
Ah yee, Bes But
yep
@@madwolf0966
A ye, be bu
yeah but when it comes in a puzzle box like that, it seems pretty legit
imagine being in a horror movie with this guy I’d trust him with my life and try to form an alliance 😂
NO HES CUTTHROAT AND WOULD SACRIFICE YOU IF HE HAD TO
@@kennybernstein1696 exactly what i thought 😂😂
And cinemasummary
@@georgep2137 fax
i’d form an alliance with almost all these people in the comments☺️
they removed the traps faster than Phineas and ferb did their inventions
LMAO NICE
it's kind of strange that you missed out on it, but in the winter place, they could LITERALLY use this metal box to break the door and go inside, like it's a door made out of old planks, you could even break it after some kicking
he had already mentioned breaking the door with anything
@@chikipichi5280 yes but if they opened the door with the Reindeer password then you could break the door later with the metal frozen box
I expected that solution to be a traped one too be honest, like a some form of machine that is deactivated if the combo lock is used
even after the door shut behind them, they couldve broken the window with the cube AT LEAST.
the ending was so dumb, they managed to get rid of an ice lake, a big ass elevator shaft and bar, an oven room, and a hospital before the end of the day??
the thing is, that it was all an simulation, as you saw in the room with the ice, when Danny tried to run to the other end of the ice, he fell and it made the simulation break a little
They most likely had prepared pretty elaborate ways to clean up the rooms after they were done. At least to me, it doesn't really break my immersion to imagine that an organization powerful enough to set these rooms up in the first place also would have deviced a way to dispose of them.
well the elevator shaft would be in the building anyway
@@marianoorlaid9821 It was an electromagnetic field or screens that showed a snowy landscape to appear real, not a simulation
@@simonO712 Did you see that furnace. You'd probably need a crane to get it out. And there's just so much stuff for like 10 people to clean up. You can't hire a construction firm unless you intend on murdering all the employees.
14:40
Fun fact, gladiator battles were rarely fought to the death because gladiators were expensive and most were taught to subdue their opponent. They even had a referee who made sure that the fight was fair.
Indeed. A persistent myth that continues to this day.
Criminals (noxii) were condemned to death in the arena and were often armed/dressed like gladiators, but everyone watching knew they weren't the real thing and they were only there to get murdered ie, not a fight to the death but an execution
"Hey [Friend/Family name], theres this kinda sketchy escape room im going to do so if you dont hear from me in like 2 hours please call 911 to [this location]. Thanks."
Always tell someone if youre going somewhere new or dangerous. So many lives are saved yearly by telling a friend or family what hike youre going on and when you'll be back. Its so important to have one person at least knowing where you are.
If youre going to be stupid, be stupid smartly.
i wanna like this but its at 69
9:44
When the TV turned on I half expected to see Jigsaw tbh
Jigsaw would have you chained up somewhere in the room.
Or at least the actor
They seriously thought it would be a smart idea to defibrillate the guy with the most white hairs and a beard lmao
Cause the black guy was too selfish to do it himself
@@jbonceu2457 don't we love that trope for a black character /j
HitStart, Nerd Explains and Cinema Summary: the Holy Trinity of "How to beat" videos
HAHA FR they're my whole recommended feed
And FilmHerald!
and Film Herald
so sad that hitstart is underrated
When I watched this movie I literally yelled, “pee in the cups!” What is wrong with me? 😂
Same. I thought either pee or spit.
Same
Blood, Vomit, THE DIRT FROM PLANTS, anything they wore in (necklace, ring, bracelet) like damn. if it can fit in a glass youre good. OR AS HE SUGGESTED - JUST STACK BOOKS ON TOP OF THE GLASSES
There's nothing wrong, but you think wisely. I mean, I would do it too.
After watching YMS’s reviews on the entire Saw franchise I thought the same
yea you caught me.. im here cause im too lazy to watch the movie
yapp. i'm a series person too. i usually don't watch things that are longer than an hour.
I don't blame you I watched it and was stressed the entire time
i didn't even know this was a movie lol. But now i dont have to watch it lol
The thing that didn’t sit right with me was that the only Asian Indian person there was killed first.
Ladies and Gentlemen, humanity has reached new levels of laziness... I introduce to you... Being too lazy to watch a movie
3:21 you can actually call 911 without internet or cell service
that´s what i thought
But if there's no service, how does that call go through?
@@surviver5738 idk why in my country it just does
@@unicornvani4894 same, it says "Emergency Calls only"
@@surviver5738 i think there are special cell lines and signals reserved for emergency services, so that you can get connected wherever you are, might be wrong though
Also, when Mike dies, would his heart rate be 0 at that point which is lower than required 50? Or does it need to be exactly 50 before the door opens?
That's what I was thinking
@@James-ip5gz seconded... I gave the move the benefit of the doubt and thought they have to slowly approach/ hold that heart rate
The machine likely needs to read a low heart rate, not the lack of a heart rate, if it did that it’d be pretty easy to cheat.
Also, when Mike dies, would his heart rate be 0 at that point which is lower than required 50? Or does it need to be exactly 50 before the door opens?
if someone had the power to do games like this and slip they wouldve patched these loop holes
the first dumb thing they even did was trust a little box that said they would get 10k from an escape room 💀
It's like one of those ads. If you have a bad day you might give them a chance
I mean they were chosen so the escape room would of found a way to get to them.
I love these videos. I stopped watching NFL Football to watch as soon as the notification came up. I appreciate the time and effort 🙏
I know this is totally unrelated, butyou explain the intrigue of football to me? I'm not bashing you for liking or whatever I just wanna know what you see in it that I don't
@@FalseProphetFallacy different things appeal to different people - many think that baseball is boring to watch, but playing the sport for 12 years left me with an undying love for it, and I don't think it's boring at all. it all depends on the person, really. it could've been a relative that really liked it and gotten them into the sport, they may have played it, or they just enjoy the action and excitement in game. to each their own
@@FalseProphetFallacy It's probably just a matter of personal preference. For me, I've always enjoyed football because it can be interesting to see all the different strategies and how they can alter the course of the game, although I'm sure that's different for everyone as well.
@@parkerberube606 I never understood the appeal of watching other people play a sport and cheering them on when you don’t know anyone from the team personally 😂
@@FalseProphetFallacy i dont think you can appreciate it without watching it for awhile. The more you know about the game, the more interesting it gets. Because of strategies, players, coaches etc.
I remember watching this movie when it came out as part of a "shitty spooky movies night" and it was actually decent for a movie based on a huge gimmick. Not a great movie, but still was pretty entertaining for what it was. Easy 6/10 if you haven't watched it I would at least give it a try.
also, the fact that everyone said that it wasn't good made me go in with very low expectations... so I was like "this actually wasn't that bad"
yeah i enjoyed it quite a lot
@@daydreams6956 Ya, I completely agre3
i have no expertise to judge movies, i don't even watch movies that often. when i saw this movie i actually kind of liked it
I actually enjoyed this movie a lot. The ending was interesting and I’m curious to see how these people will control the plane flight
@Obay Jae Yea I saw! Can’t wait to watch it.
It was a great movie the sequel was awful
I didn't believe there was a current either
Just an excuse the writers made up to kill a character w a lot of potential
He would have died due to hypothermia most likely anyways
Yea, and it'd be preety interesting and smart if Jason wouldn't actually start looking for the kid, just focused on the key. That'd make it seem more like he doesn't actually care for the kid and just wants as many people as possible to live, so he lies to Amanda, instead of there being a current that works like the ocean in Moana :/
The games masters did it because he had the phone and the lighter, two things that would unfairly beat the puzzle and provide evidence
@@sr.toastybuns302
I dont think the lighter counts, cuz as seen with the oven room, cheating the puzzle is allowed, since they filled the last glass with a flask of alcohol, (which wasn’t provided in the room itself) plus, how do u use a lighter as evidence lol, pretty sure the police would just chalk it up to you being a smoker or smthn
Though i do agree with the phone, that’s one end too lose to leave untied
Well it is shown that Jason doesn't care about others and will do everything to save his own life. From his view the kid is dead so he just moves on to make it out without endangering himself or other party members that could still be useful in next rooms .Pretty much all the rooms connect to the past of the people there(like the Rudolf code). It is revealed that in past Jason killed his friend so he could survive. That is also why he was so fast to electrocute the guy to death if it would help him to get out. So I do not think it was lazy writing just him calculating the best scenario to get out. Even if they could get him out of the water he would be just slowing them down.
I was a huge fan of this movie, some of the deaths and events felt sort of forced, like the drowning one. There were a lot of options.
Dont throw a lighter onto and ice lake.
Remember you’re on an icelake and keep your body weight more evenly distributed.
When he goes under shatter the ice with the block.
Pick the best swimmer send them in to get him, have them hook that magnet around there waste so they have a guide line to get back to the hole.
Literally anything was better than “THERES A CURRENT ITS TOO LATE”.
Danny didn't worry about distributing weight since at that point he didn't understand that it was real
Well the way he threw the lighter was dumb. Just throw it through air. But the other points are kinda moot. After the first room they still thought it is just a game even though more realistic than other rooms. And they would probably figure a way to reach him, but Jason stopped them because he figured out the kid would just slow them down after being submerged in freezing water and almost drowning.
Also, when Mike dies, would his heart rate be 0 at that point which is lower than required 50? Or does it need to be exactly 50 before the door opens?
With the way the ice breaks I was under the impression that it was done on purpose. It kinda doesn’t give any “warning” cracks at all and breaks in a perfect circle conveniently where the lighter is. I think the game maker saw the lighter and knew they had to get rid of it somehow cause it would’ve helped them to melt the ice quickly. It doesn’t seem like that far fetched of an idea given that they are able to create these elaborate rooms that are essentially giant oven and have breakaway floors triggered by a phone rings.
Also the ice doesn’t break anywhere else at all even when there’s a lot of weight on it and when it’s literally being stomped on.
@@gamerxd6149 stop spamming this comment
Kid: "Mom can we watch Saw?"
Mom: "No sweetheart, Saw is too bloody, besides we have Saw at home"
*Saw at home*
I don't get it
Neither do I
@@James-ip5gz E.R is like saw but no gore
@@James-ip5gz escape room is just saw for babies
@@epicm999 their trying to say its a knock off of saw, and saws better, because this movie has no gore.
The movie would actually have improved if they had fail attempts for 25% of this video. There were some obvious things I would have thought to do in the moment so it would be more effective to see those fail and the audience feels more shocked by their creative solutions. It had a good lil amount for me. Thanks Zoe.
Bro these videos are so entertaining, keep this up my dude
In the black and white room, if they all made it, I think Mike or Amanda would be strong enough to open it by them self, that way only one person touches the poison and they can use the Antidote
I'd just eat the ice block, also mike dying made me sad because he gives me father feels. :(
Literally it makes me so mad he gives me jack black father typa vibes n he died for nothing :/
when the movie ended me and cousin were screaming because we loved mike so much
mike is legit my favourite character
Danny's death hit hard. It was stuck in my head for like 2 days
@@boobfart5393 I guess I saw my own father in him and it breaks you to see that, especially if you have a really close bond w ur parent lol🙏
I like how you go over the puzzles from a perspective where you DON'T know everything in hindsight. Of course, as the audience, it's easy to think that we'd know better, but we have the benefit of hindsight, which the characters don't.
So thanks for this particular layout.
I'll be patient for the next Saw Video, but these videos are still great
Gonna be hard to explain Saw 5.........lol
8:47 My grandma (and my mom) always put their money under their bra, I wonder why amanda thinking skin tight jeans pocket will handle such a ball shaped thing?
Could have just tied the handle inside her shirt or something
I thought the same thing. That was really dumb. If you wanna put it in your pants then at least put it inside your pants and not in the pocket.
@@rosestar1324 I know right. There is no reason to be ashamed. But you know bad writer be like "Lets kill this character for the plot" by doing dumb thing.
@@sliceoflife3611 in my opinion, I think it’s scarier to do the logical thing but still end up being killed because you were out smarted by the killer. If you’re dumb and get killed, you were just dumb. And whether they know or not, all audiences think they have some sort of intelligence.
@@rosestar1324 Yeah, that is why i love james wan horror movie, especially Dead Silence. The Plot twist is just fucking amazing.
And THAT‘S the reason why women‘s pants need to have bigger pockets! Take that clothes-designer!
The sequel should be called "Escape Tomb" because the word "tomb" sounds like the words "two" and "room" mixed together also everyone dies and is buried
“Escape twomb”
Escape womb it’s in a hospital and babies have a plot thing idk that’s all I got
😬 hmm. I’m glad they went with Escape Room lol
How about there’s a new group of 7 people and then 3 people survive
thank you for coming to my ted talk
Love how they have an entire cottage full of options the melt the ice block, like a fireplace and more. So of course sitting on it outside was the most logical choice.
The door handle broke hun
They couldn’t get back in
I'd use it to break one of those windows and get back.
You should make a video about how to beat "The cube" its a movie
Also I love your content
nerdexplains
Just stay where you are
just watched the movie yesterday, and this comes in my recommended
is youtube working with the FBI?
"Johnson! He watched 'Escape Room'. You know what to do ..."
Same only difference is that I searched for escape room on youtube to watch reviews on it after I just watched the movie, and coincidentally HitStart just posted this video about it on the same day I watched it not too long ago lol.
@@handsomemancool Huh, I guess HitStart IS the FBI. There's no other answer
Zoey was a literal genius she stayed calm and was very careful she was very aware of her surrounding's and that's exactly what you need to do in this game
I'm confused at the ending though. How are they going to install the game on their flight? And doesn't it also mean that everyone else dies?
I guess we will see In escape room 2
My guess is that the pilot and crew are blackmailed or promised a large sum of cash to test the installed or prototype plane. The people on board are civilians with destinations. Maybe targeted or filtered with targeted advertising. The real trick is getting the main character to get onto the one plane, possibly by playing the Main into a puzzle, to find the right flight to take. A filter only the Main would understand. This is also a way to tie up a loose end, as the Main is very persistent in uncovering, yet also very willing to solve their puzzles.
Idk just an idea.
The epilogue section makes mentions that they have effectively transferred the flights of the main characters to a different one, it can be assumed that they setup a flight themselves specifically for these two people.
Mike Wang true. I don’t remember that, so it didn’t come to mind. I might need to rewatch that ending to truly know... which I’ll do right now.
Or they may be tricked into going on a fake flight that has just the two of them on it, and the staff shown doing the simulated flight will be the crew on that plane.
A sequel to this could be great, and I'm here for it.
There is a sequel coming!
The sequel is out
Me: Yeah, I like solving puzzles.
Rich white men: So, you've chosen DEATH
Anyone can look at a horror movie and say "here's how to not die: don't do (insert stupid mistake)"
But you take it a step further and say "okay, you've made the stupid mistake. Here's how you can still survive:" which I find really intriguing.
The race inclusion makes no sense. Rich people, yes. White people? Why specifically them?
@@Novarcharesk just following the stereotype and it's a just a joke. Of course there are rich pricks of every race out there. It's not that deep.
They couldve legit called 911. You dont need service for 911.
But idk if they could do much.
As others have said, the police aren't a magic number that gets through every time. Their still has to be the EM signal piercing surroundings to get to a tower, and if there is a dense enough material surrounding the signal, it will not get through, and so will not connect.
ngl this movie was actually AMAZING. me and my dad watched it and we were impressed
I would want this guy on my team in a horror movie.
I thought this was going to be a bootleg version of Nerd Explains but you did enough to differ yourself from him. I quite enjoyed the analysis of this how to beat.
Do keep in mind that while Nerd Explains's How to Beat IS pretty good, he did NOT invent the How to Beat genre of videos. Assuming HitStart's was a "bootleg" just sounds disrespectful since these sort of videos are only done by a handful of other TH-camrs in the first place.
@@huvothoughts You didn’t read my comment throughly did you? I *praised* him for differing himself from Nerd Explains and I never said he made the genre. He however did *popularized* it imo. He gets millions of views each video and was one of the earliest people doing them. So saying he popularized them is fair to say.
For those who don't know you can still call 911 even if you don't have signal, as the phone will automatically connect to the nearest tower regardless of your service provider and will allow you to call 911
Omg- I love these so much even though I have never seen most of the movies its fun to see your theories and opinions on how to beat it!
a few days ago the sequel'strailer got release and honestly I'm kinda hyped for it, can't wait to see how it all develops lol
Couldve also probably used the stuffing from the coat as kindling to atleast light a really small fire with whatever other dry ingredients they could find to speed up the ice melting process
You know, this would actually be a pretty neat escape room. A lot of interesting themes and locations along with really creative puzzles would be pretty fun to solve. Y’know, minus the pain and death of course
I think the “don’t touch anything without thinking carefully first” rule could’ve applied to the poisoned hatch. It was way too obvious of an exit so they should have considered the possibility of tactile poison.
I mean, since they had no way of knowing there was anything toxic on the handle I guess they couldn’t know before the fact, but one solution I thought of to the weird trippy room, as an outsider would be if they took off their shirts and put that on the handle before lifting
This! Why aren't more people thinking of this?
After watching this movie I will never go to any escape rooms again especially if I'm offered $10'000. Better be safe than sorry.
This movie reminded me of this one time my family and I entered a real escape room. It was from a small company and they forgot that they left us in the room after it closed. When the time ran out, no one had entered the room to let us out. And all of our "hint calls" were used up. So we had to escape ourselves. We kind of just guessed everything. When we left, we realised it was closed so we called the number of the escape room to let us out. It was kind of jarring after watching this movie.
@@axolotlchaoswow Damn, how long were you stuck there?
@@SorakaOTP462 replying to see how long they were left in there too
Imagine when he gets to The Game Master’s hall all he finds is a tape recorder that says, “Hello Ben, I want to play a game”
Great video:)
Agreed, watching people work together is essential. It's so refreshing to watch a "Saw-esque" escape-from-a-room movie, without any of the morality stuff. Just a straightforward: here's a room, here are some puzzles, solve it or die.
"There's no signal so we can't call anyone"
Someone who actually understands how emergency calls work, "You don't need a signal to call 911"
Someone who understands how radio waves work "You still need to be able to get a signal"
Emergency calls just connect to any tower and make the call. Meaning if you didn't have signal from your provider, it would still go through. It won't do anything if you physically can't get a connection.
Looks kinda like you don't really know how emergency calls work after all :P
Its weird that they have official guards and all and it turned out to be some death trap, also who would even go to it in first place ?
These are real things. You beat an escape room and get high amounts of money so its kind of believable especially for people who are aware of the existence escape rooms
what is strange is that you are talking about horrifying things but your voice is so soothing
Saw this movie in theaters with my friend and brother on our first shroom trip. Couldn’t have been a better movie we stumbled across 😂
If you like escape rooms, and like the saw movies, then this is the movie for you!
You can't use items that are nailed down or are otherwise designated non-interactive. Zero Escape series is best escape series.
Ah, yes, the series where you can get murdered, get murdered with an axe, get a virus and die, get acidified by acid showers, get your head blown off with an explosive collar, discover that you are half cyborg, and die multiple times.
movies like these may not be great and all but I find them fascinating and fun
Movies like these are good to laugh at for it’s stupidity like the saw ones. Keep up the quality content man!
this guy paired with cinema summaries would be able to survive any horror movie
Plot twist: Jigsaw is trying to do a new game
9:10 Amanda would actually need to do a muscle up, not a pull up, which is much harder to get herself onto the pool table unless there was something nearby for her to put her feet on
0:08 GOD DAMMIT THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!!
If this was jigsaw he would be so proud for being a teamwork
They could’ve just peed in the cups tbh
Oh my god, how have I never heard of this movie! It's literally so interesting and even unique with everyone working together. I really gotta go watch the entire thing, thank you.
The movie didn’t account for one of the characters telling someone where they were going.
Bruh if I were sent a puzzle cube like that I’d go “huh, cool” and put it on a shelf and forget about it 😂
Me: Sees guys in hazmat suits
Also me: *Amogus*
I was just thinking that 💀
“i’ve been waiting for this one, turn it up!”
Hey HitStar how’s it going? I just wanted ask you how do you beat every trap in Saw 5?
that's coming up, I have been working on it and it's definitely going to be interesting
@@HitStartYT thank you. Love ur vids
It would be good if movies like this gave viewers several options of what the characters can do with multiple plot lines/endings. I'd definitely rewatch
For the falling floor one couldn’t they just have pulled the phone cord and it wouldn’t ring any more
I think the phones just there to tell them when somethings going to fall, sorta giving them a fair chance too get a timing on how long they have before they need to use the walls ect
I think it's like if you wag a dog's tail does if make it happy?
Or just call the cops you don’t need service to
@@renhey9979
I think the more accurate allegory would be “if you cut a dog’s tail off, can it still be excited?”
and i dont get why amanda didnt shove the knob in her BRA instead of POCKET??? titties hold everything. worst case, mouth? like theres better choices. she couldve taken her shirt off and tied knots with the ball in it
Man, you and CinemaSins are so likeminded.
This is a direct quote from his video on the movie:
"Yeah, what in this room could POSSIBLY weigh that last glass down!? Could it be... I don't know... *THE BOOKS?* I don't mean to be HEAVY-HANDED with this, but the intelligence of these people is WEIGHING DOWN the movie!"
I swear in movies when there’s “no signal” why don’t they just buy a normal iPhone and make a emergency call
Because that would make for a short and shit movie wouldn't it😂
The people running the game probably had some sort of phone jammer.
cuz theres no signal? how do you make an emergency call when theres no signal, idiot?
@@jackyboi5668 emergency calls can be made anywhere it will use a fucking sneeze from a moose to make the call and save them.
GoaDog7 wow thats pretty cool
High quality videos and great story telling. Definitely an underrated channel, thank you. Looking forward for saw five!
12:47 I don’t think it would be possible to find a single drug that would cause this because in the end of the movie, when Zoey says, “When Ben wakes up, he’s confirm everything,” the detective states there were 3 illegal drugs found in his system. So clearly whatever caused the hallucinations was a mixture of many drugs, which is why the symptoms were so insane.
This channel is like a mix of Dead meat and Cinemasins and I love it!
I love these how to beat analyses video.
after watching like 7 of your videos in the dark its amazing to finally watch one where im 100% sure every horror movie creature is not watching me
I legit just watch this movie
This man narrates my nightmares 😄
Another thing they could do to the ice block would be peeing on it. Gross yes but it would melt from it .
i watched this the other day and then had an extremely in depth dream of me in it... so now i’m back to watch this again 🌝
Love every vid this guy does
14:25 when the imposter is sus
if they swim into the ice water they would most likely die to hyperthermia
Well ya but they’d still have time I mean Danny didn’t die instantly
@@royalpain9281 well yes but after going that deep then getting him up first, it is still really likely that 1 he will die because he drowned or 2 he will die to hyperthermia unless someone else took their clothes off to warm him up because that is the fastest way to keep someone from getting hyperthermia if you have nothing else around to warm him up
@@royalpain9281 Actually ealier in that room they've established that just slightly dipping their leg in the water burns them like crazy, when it happened to Ben so I feel like even if they tried to save him I feel like they wouldn't be able to get out, even without the "current", and like HitStart said, if they went underwater, they possibly couldn't find their way back by themselves, not even counting having your eyes open in super freezing water.
dude i think you have been through all sorts of traps irl and just know everything lol, love theses vids
5:16
Or maybe toss the lighter all the way to them instead of sliding it on the ice halfway
Or perhaps walk over to them and pass it over. That part seemed especially contrived for no good reason.
@@Novarcharesk if he walked over then he would have fallen in instead
@@Jackn17_ Not necessarily, and they certainly didn't seem to concerned about basic safety until the ice broke.
@@Novarcharesk the other person fell in the water going to get it, do you think if the other guy walked from the other direction he would be safer somehow?
The only way none of them would have fallen in is by throwing it and catching it
8:50
Then tournament of champions rolls around
You know you know 😂
12:40 There could've been 2 drugs on the handle. The hallucinogen could've been LSD (LSD was actually discovered by a scientist who got high after handling LSD without gloves). The poison could've been any poison that is able to go systemic transdermally.
Could it be DMT? at the end of the movie, the article for Jason says that DMT was found in his system
@@emilystanley5652 yeah exactly what i was thinking
@Emily Stanley That was probably a mistake by the directors. DMT doesn’t show up in the human body in a test
Why do I watch these they give me SO MUCH ANXIETY!!