No Escape
The action thriller follows Jack Dwyer who decides to pick up a new life in Southeast Asia but unfortunately business loops them in a coup and the next thing on his mind is an escape route.
1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
16 May 1953, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
24 March 1979, New York City, New York, USA
April 06, 2016
This appalling escape movie takes racism towards Asians to an extreme not seen for many years in mainstream films.
April 05, 2016
Seems to suggest that these American lives are more valuable than anyone else's and that's a message, regardless of how unintentional, that many are becoming increasingly wary of. Political correctness aside, it's just bad filmmaking.
May 24, 2016
This work manages to dehumanise an entire region while providing little entertainment value.
August 28, 2015
Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up.
July 14, 2016
You're unlikely to see an action-thriller this summer that is as intense as No Escape.
August 27, 2015
I won't make a case for No Escape being a good film; the first half is pretty good and the second half ranges from pretty bad to truly awful.
December 30, 2015
No Escape is as accomplished as it is vicious.
April 15, 2016
"No Escape" plays like an "Argo" rewrite by someone who heard about "Argo" from a friend who never saw "Argo."
September 04, 2015
No Escape is bare-bones, shameless, and too obnoxious to stay suspenseful for long.
August 27, 2015
Dowdle sticks closely to the family's perspective, for better and for worse; though fairly effective at conveying their terror, he fails to establish any sort of social or political context for the story.
December 30, 2015
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.
