You don't get any background details about anything. The story there feels lazy in a way, it is sort of a repeat of the first Escape Room movie (just not nearly as good) because you learn pretty much nothing at all about the universe of the movies. The theatrical cut however is a complete different story, and in my opinion is more like 2 out of 10. The overall movie there is 6 out of 10 in my opinion. The twist in the end is just slightly predicatble (seen it in a few other movies so it's not original) and not fully baked but is still kinda nice, the idea behind it is just better than the other version, and the movie is not a total waste of time and is still enjoyable even if it isn't a masterpiece. The extended cut develops the main story behind the rooms and kinda moves the story forward. But still, the extended cut version is BY FAR better story wise. Neither of these versions is too great, none of them is as good as the first Escape Room movie. To identify which one you are watching, note the theatrical one is the one starting with a therapy session, while the extended one is the one starting with a 2003 flashback. This is a spoiler free review to tell you the differences between them without revealing the actual story of each. I think many people are not aware of the two very different versions telling a different story, and my guess is that majority of the really low rates are coming from peope who watched the theatrical version. It's a very different movie where the beginning and the end tell a complete different story with complete different characters, while only the middle part of the two versions is identical. Despite the misleading titles, the extended cut is NOT just the same movie with a few extra scenes. Note this movie has 2 versions, one is the cinema version called the "theatrical cut" and is 1h 28m and more common to find, and the other is called the "extended cut" and is 1h 36m.
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