Escape Room Tournament of Champions Ending & Twist Explained
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions Ending & Twist Explained
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’ ending features surprise character returns, major twists, and a link to the first Escape Room movie’s ending.
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Just when Zoey and Ben think they’re free from the clutches of the Minos Corporation, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’ ending twist reveals that they never really escaped at all. The final moments of the horror sequel set up a continuation of the story in Escape Room 3, and also connect to the ending of Escape Room.
Directed by Adam Robitel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions sees the two survivors of the first Escape Room movie trying to get justice for their fellow players who were tormented and killed by Minos. Unfortunately, their attempt to investigate Minos headquarters in New York City ends with them being lured into a new set of escape rooms, alongside four other survivors of previous Minos games. After facing down a series of devilish puzzles involving a subway car that becomes a Tesla coil, a bank full of deadly lasers, a fake beach covered in quicksand and a city street that’s periodically doused in highly corrosive acid rain, Zoey is shocked by the surprise return of not one, but two people she thought were dead: Amanda, who died in the first movie, and Ben, who was swallowed by he quicksand.
Like the escape rooms themselves, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions has a fresh surprise around every corner. Here’s a breakdown of Tournament of Champions’ ending, what it reveals about the Minos Corporation, and how it sets up another sequel.
How (and Why) Amanda Survived The First Escape Room
With a bit of retconning via newly-shot flashbacks to the first Escape Room movie, Tournament of Champions reveals that Amanda Harper had a young daughter. This is an early clue to a twist in the third act, when it’s revealed that Amanda’s death by falling was an illusion and she has been in Minos’ grip ever since. After falling down the long shaft from the pool room with the collapsing floor, Amanda landed on a mattress instead of the hard ground. Minos then revealed that they had kidnapped her daughter, Sonya, and used this as leverage to force Amanda to design their next set of puzzle rooms.
As revealed in the first movie, Minos escape rooms are provided as high-end gladiatorial entertainment to a client base of wealthy sadists, and their customers are always demanding more complex and elaborate puzzles. Each round of contestants are connected by a theme – like the group in Escape Room being sole survivors, or Nathan being grouped with five other priests in his first game – so using former contestants to design new puzzles may simply be another way of evolving the escape rooms and keeping things exciting for the clients.
Amanda’s series of escape rooms were unique in how she used them to tell her own story, perhaps with the intention of communicating a cry for help. As Zoey realizes when she reads a letter written by Amanda’s daughter, Sonya, the escape rooms are all connected to memories of a particular day: riding on the subway, going to the bank, and going to the beach. Both the beach and the street puzzle used imagery of a little girl looking up at her mother, and there were also references to the previous round of escape rooms hidden the new set. As Zoey’s therapist tells her, “everything is a clue.”
Could Other Contestants Still Be Alive?
A major theme of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is that all is not as it seems, and this is driven home by Amanda’s warning to Zoey that if she didn’t see a dead body with her own eyes, that death may not have happened at all. If Minos saved Amanda from her fall, they may also have saved other contestants. Danny Khan was a veteran of escape rooms and had been through dozens of them before, making him the perfect candidate for Minos to recruit as a puzzle designer. Danny appeared to drown after falling through ice, but since his body disappeared into the water he could very well return in the same way Amanda did.
Ben’s return after being caught in the quicksand trap also opens up the possibility that Nathan could still be alive, since he was pulled into the same trap. Rachel and Brianna appeared to die when they were caught in the acid rain, but Zoey was dropped into the next room before their deaths were confirmed. And although the report at the police station says that four bodies were removed from the Minos building in New York, the news report is revealed to be just another lie cooked up by Minos.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’ Final Twist
Believing that Minos has been defeated and that Amanda is giving a statement at the police station that will help the FBI to hunt down the culprits, Amanda finally decides to push past her lingering fear of flying and get on a plane back to Chicago. While on the plane, however, she realizes that all the means by which she thought she was cheating Minos and breaking their puzzles – such as discovering the second exit behind the moon in the beach room, and using the gas pipe to free Ben in the final room – were suspiciously easy. What she’d thought were mistakes in the puzzle design were actually put there deliberately, just like all the other clues.
Zoey and Ben’s “escape” from the Minos building was all part of the corporation’s plan. Their experience in the police station, from the police report on TV to the assurance that Minos was under FBI investigation, was all a set-up. It was designed to give Zoey the confidence to finally get on a plane, which in turn would start the next round of escape rooms. The book about free will that her therapist shows her at the start of the movie really was a clue – a clue to how Minos was planning to trick her by making her think she was doing things of her own free will, when actually she was playing right into their hands.
How Escape Room Set Up Escape Room 2’s Ending
Escape Room ended with what at first seemed to be an escape room built inside a plane, with the contestants forced to try and solve the puzzle before the plane crashed into a mountainside. It then revealed that this plane was simply a model, built on a tilting platform with screens on the windows to create the illusion of being in the air. The “contestants” were Minos employees playing through the puzzle room in order to look for flaws in its design.
After the latest test run of the plane puzzle, a mysterious shadowy figure on a screen asks what the chances of success are, and an engineer tells him that they are only 4%. The Puzzle Maker reveals that this room has been specifically designed for Zoey, gloating, “I’m so glad Zoey got over her fear of flying.” At the start of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions it seems like Zoey has successfully avoided this puzzle; she cancelled the flight she was supposed to be getting on to New York, and cancelled three other flights as well, finally deciding to drive to the city with Ben instead. The Puzzle Maker apparently realized that Zoey would never be confident enough to fly unless she thought Minos had been defeated, and so orchestrated a plan to make Zoey think she had won.
It’s possible that the plane that Ben and Zoey get on at the end of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions isn’t even a real plane, but a model inside a warehouse like the one seen at the end of Escape Room. It’s also possible that Minos has stepped things up by turning a real plane into a puzzle room, and if Zoey isn’t able to figure out the clues, she and Ben and all the other passengers actually will crash. It’s a clear entry point for a sequel, but like the rest of the movie it also expands the idea of what an escape room can be.
The Real Meaning Of Escape Room 2’s Ending
The very first puzzle room introduced in Escape Room established the idea that any room could be an escape room. The contestants were told to go and sit in a waiting room, only to realize that they were locked inside and the game had already begun. As Zoey’s therapist explains to her in the beginning of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, their experience has left them with a specific kind of trauma that makes them see the world itself as an escape room, and everything in it as clues. Speaking to Screen Rant, director Adam Robitel explained that the goal in Tournament of Champions was to make the audience share that doubt about what is real and what is manufactured:
“The game has definitely expanded. Minos has been hard at work, but what I love about this movie is – anywhere you go, anybody you talk to – what is reality? There is no spoon. The game can be anywhere; the puzzles are anywhere. And the idea that there is this Machiavellian force controlling every single choice we make, I think it’s a really scary one – particularly coming out of a pandemic where we feel like we’ve lost all agency over our lives.”
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions upped the stakes right away by turning a subway car into an escape room. This offers an idea of just how terrifyingly powerful the Minos Corporation is; if they can control New York’s subway system and turn a police station into an extension of their game, how much else could they control? Did Zoey really cheat the puzzle system and kill the Gamesmaster in the first Escape Room movie because of her own free will, or was that too planned as part of the entertainment by Minos? And if Escape Room 2 turned a New York City sidewalk, a beach and even a plane into an elaborate and carefully controlled puzzle, just how will Minos continue to up their game in Escape Room 3?
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/escape-room-2-tournament-champions-ending-twist-explained/
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