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Escape from Alcatraz makes brilliant use of the tense claustrophobia of its infamous setting -- as well as its leading man's legendarily flinty resolve.
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Escape From Alcatraz is a nifty prison movie, among the best of that genre ever made. Jul 17, 2019 | Full Review…
Escape From Alcatraz is a nifty prison movie, among the best of that genre ever made.
Bob Thomas
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
Variety Staff
It's an austere depiction of the tedious routines of prison life, and of the courage and strength of spirit needed in coping with unpleasant warders, tough fellow-inmates, and a life sentence. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
It's an austere depiction of the tedious routines of prison life, and of the courage and strength of spirit needed in coping with unpleasant warders, tough fellow-inmates, and a life sentence.
Geoff Andrew
It's one of those very difficult exercises in which large emotions, like the compulsion to be free, are reflected in minute actions, like the chipping away at stone with a pocket nail clipper. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It's one of those very difficult exercises in which large emotions, like the compulsion to be free, are reflected in minute actions, like the chipping away at stone with a pocket nail clipper.
Roger Ebert
What Mr. Siegel has made is fiction, a first-rate action movie that is about the need and the decision to take action, as well as the action itself. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
What Mr. Siegel has made is fiction, a first-rate action movie that is about the need and the decision to take action, as well as the action itself.
Vincent Canby
Eastwood is working with director Don Siegel for the fifth and final time. Oct 17, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Eastwood is working with director Don Siegel for the fifth and final time.
Matt Brunson
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity. Apr 15, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
Andrea Beach
One of the better prison break films. Sep 1, 2010 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
One of the better prison break films.
Dennis Schwartz
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame Nov 13, 2009 | Full Review…
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
Fernando F. Croce
Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and it's the end of an impeccable track record. Jun 18, 2009 | Full Review…
Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and it's the end of an impeccable track record.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick. Apr 17, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick.
Scott Weinberg
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work. Sep 21, 2004 | Rating: 3/5
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.
Tony Medley
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