From the point where Zoey escapes from the room with the acid rain to the end of the film (about a 12-minute span), we get a 100% new sequence of events from the theatrical version.
The scenes we get with these characters at the beginning are cryptic - in 2003, Claire’s mother is killed in their mansion home in a surprise sauna escape room, with the implication being that Henry was responsible. Henry has locked Claire in a basement prison, and she’s using the game to make a power move. The new framing here involves the guy who’s directly in charge of the games, Henry (James Frain), and his daughter Claire (Isabelle Fuhrman) who designs them. The extended cut, which leaves Woll out completely, creates a similar concern about the game being for show, but for completely new reasons - even while the game itself is, as far as I can tell, exactly the same as it was in the theatrical. In the theatrical, we learned basically nothing tangible about Minos, the folks behind the deadly puzzles, other than that they seem even scarier than we realized before. The extended cut almost entirely replaces the frame of the movie. The differences between the two cuts of “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” are stark and fundamentally change the movie’s story. But when a cut isn’t a director’s cut and it actually removes scenes that were in the other version and replaces them with new ones - which is what happened here - then some other term is almost certainly more accurate.Īnyway. If they aren’t calling it a director’s cut then it probably isn’t director Adam Robitel’s ideal cut, and “extended cut” usually fits when “director’s cut” does not.
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There are a lot of terms that movie studios can use when they release a new version of a movie on home video, with “extended cut” and “director’s cut” being the ones we’re most familiar with.
The press release for it claimed 25 minutes of new footage, which was certainly exciting - but when I pulled up the new cut to watch it, I saw the running time was a mere six minutes longer than the theatrical version. The new version of “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” is billed as an “extended cut,” but another term probably would have been more accurate. (This article contains spoilers for both the theatrical and “extended” versions of “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions”)