Any time a movie has more than 1 title on IMDB, that should be a red flag. This movie is no exception.
A typical mixed group of young adults..."Cole Turner" (the blonde guy with a black guy BFF, cliche' much?) travels to Moscow to film content for the aforementioned blonde guy's vlog (still not clear on exactly what he did...extreme sports? Travel vlog? The director was never clear)
They travel to Moscow and promptly get into a scuffle with a couple of bald Russian bad guys. The entire film plays on the same tired story of ignorant Americans traveling abroad in a land full of creepy foreigners who want to do bad things to them. It's exactly like other users have said, it's a remake of Saw, Hotel, etc...
None of the actors in the film are recognizable, that's also always a bad sign.
The scruffy blonde host is going to a mysterious place, to experience something that he has no knowledge about. He mentions that it's an Escape Room, but otherwise there's actually no explanation of exactly what it's supposed to be. Apparently all his friends know, but refuse to give him any clue (yet a few of them seem to know it's NOT good). His BFF and his (GF? Maybe?) behave as though he's going to be executed.
Finally, he gets to the secret location, where his cliche Russian guide feeds us some story about a prisoner and how Cole must escape and release his friends before the timer runs out and his friends are executed.
The entire film is basically SAW, with a little Escape Room and COUNTLESS "I'm a social media personality" thrown in. There is NOTHING new or original about this film. It's a straight-to-Hulu movie, which already tells you it's gonna suck., but out of desperation you watch it anyway (and then hate yourself, because you knew it was gonna be bad).
So long as you go into this expecting it to suck, it'll be okay. But if you expect it to actually be a decent movie, you will be sorely disappointed.
