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No Escape's talented cast and taut B-movie thrills are unfortunately offset by its one-dimensional characters and uncomfortably retrograde worldview.
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No Escape takes the casual xenophobia of something like Taken, crossbreeds it with something altogether more noxious, then asks us to kick back and enjoy the ride. We don't. We can't. And the ride isn't that great to begin with. Dec 30, 2015 | Full Review…
No Escape takes the casual xenophobia of something like Taken, crossbreeds it with something altogether more noxious, then asks us to kick back and enjoy the ride. We don't. We can't. And the ride isn't that great to begin with.
Bilge Ebiri
No Escape is as accomplished as it is vicious. Dec 30, 2015 | Full Review…
No Escape is as accomplished as it is vicious.
Alan Scherstuhl
No Escape is bare-bones, shameless, and too obnoxious to stay suspenseful for long. Sep 4, 2015 | Full Review…
No Escape is bare-bones, shameless, and too obnoxious to stay suspenseful for long.
Wesley Morris
The film's technical sensibilities are as outmoded as its rotten worldview. Sep 3, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The film's technical sensibilities are as outmoded as its rotten worldview.
Adam Woodward
Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up. Aug 28, 2015 | Full Review…
Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up.
Kyle Smith
The odd plus point - Wilson's surprisingly strong action chops, Lake Bell's solid performance as a terrified mom - are spoiled by the archaic tone. Aug 28, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The odd plus point - Wilson's surprisingly strong action chops, Lake Bell's solid performance as a terrified mom - are spoiled by the archaic tone.
Henry Barnes
The film continuously puts Owen Wilson in interesting scenarios and does so effectively. [Full Review in Spanish] Feb 15, 2019 | Full Review…
The film continuously puts Owen Wilson in interesting scenarios and does so effectively. [Full Review in Spanish]
David Ocadiz
Brosnan is a pleasant surprise and the film is a heart stopping mix of white-knuckle action and compelling family drama. Nov 1, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Brosnan is a pleasant surprise and the film is a heart stopping mix of white-knuckle action and compelling family drama.
Debbie Baldwin
I had to make an immediate appointment with my hairdresser to cover the 50 new grey hairs that sprung to life in that 2 hour movie! Aug 21, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
I had to make an immediate appointment with my hairdresser to cover the 50 new grey hairs that sprung to life in that 2 hour movie!
Pamela Powell
In this situation, you do anything necessary, no matter how ugly, to protect what's most important; family Dec 2, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
In this situation, you do anything necessary, no matter how ugly, to protect what's most important; family
Robert Kojder
I don't know about you, but with the real-life killings in Tunisia so recent, I really have no appetite for this sort of thing being fictionalised and served up as entertainment. Oct 26, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
I don't know about you, but with the real-life killings in Tunisia so recent, I really have no appetite for this sort of thing being fictionalised and served up as entertainment.
Matthew Bond
No Escape plays into the worst fears of Americans abroad, where danger lurks around every corner for U.S. nationals, and compounds this jingoistic sense by fostering the notion that no other lives matter more than those of this one American family. Oct 17, 2017 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
No Escape plays into the worst fears of Americans abroad, where danger lurks around every corner for U.S. nationals, and compounds this jingoistic sense by fostering the notion that no other lives matter more than those of this one American family.
tt stern-enzi
A film that never got much advertisment and ends up being a very good film, We get about 5 of these a year, It's an edge of your seat action thriller that's kind of offensive in ways but still a great popcorn flick and it was nice to see Owen Wilson in a serious role for a change, The action was very good and full of suspense all the cast were great but Pierce Brosnan was brilliant but under used, The film has had some harsh reviews because critics don't like it when a film dares to step over certain lines, It's a film you watch enjoy then forget about.
Super Reviewer
Incredibly intense, No Escape is the story of a family's desperate fight for survival in the face of extreme circumstances. When Jack Dwyer moves his wife and kids to Southeast Asia after getting a job with an American company they get caught-up in a violent revolution and must find a way to get to the American embassy before they're captured and killed by the street mobs. Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, and Pierce Brosnan lead the cast, and give fairly good performances. And, the director uses some interesting slow motion techniques that intensify the action. Still, the pacing is rather slow in the first act, and the plot is pretty thin. Yet for a high-adrenaline chase film, No Escape works.
"No Escape" knows no subtlety. I was almost surprised that subtitles didn't appear throughout the movie notifying the audience of the messages and moments of pathos they were intended to perceive, in case those points were missed in the clunky script. It didn't help that the film's lead, Owen Wilson, was completely miscast -- unless a feckless, wimpy father was the hero Dowdle had in mind for his everyday American. If you are a fan of action and suspense who doesn't really care about characters or story, then the film might not be so bad for you. There are some exciting moments (even if they later succumb to the silly), so it's not a complete dud. Overall, "No Escape" is a completely forgettable film.
An American family is transferred overseas and a chance for a better life only to find themselves in the middle of a bloody anti-American revolution soon after their arrival. Wilson and Bell are not given much or long to convince us that they are a couple but by the conclusion you sorta feel that way, as if they are. Brosnan again tips his hat to that Brit spy background of his irreverently and to good effect. The politics might be slightly different nowadays, but there's enough residual feeling here to give the on the ground action a true punch, true feeling, and my palms were sweating throughout.
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