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.

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.