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Aug 26, 2015 · With its clunky filmmaking, overt sadism (with the expected shootings, slashings and burnings augmented by an attempted rape and a little girl being forced at gunpoint to shoot her own father) and borderline xenophobia, one might assume that "No Escape" was the latest film from Eli Roth.
No Escape's talented cast and taut B-movie thrills are unfortunately offset by its one-dimensional characters and uncomfortably retrograde worldview. Read Critics Reviews
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Aug 25, 2015 · As “No Escape” begins, the Dwyers are landing, befriended on their flight by Hammond (Pierce Brosnan), a seatmate with the rough beard, fresh scars and randy cheer of an old post-colonial hand.
No Escape is a highly satisfying and energetic action epic that never feels bloated so much as efficient and lethal. Full Review | Oct 15, 2022
No Escape gets a questionable start but speeds to the finish for a win. It's the most intense and breathtaking movie of 2015, with a stellar performance from Owen Wilson.
"No Escape" is set in an anonymous South East Asia country bordering Vietnam facing a violent civil war, with the uprising triggered by perceived foreign imperialist intervention. The film was shot in Thailand but looks and feels like Cambodia.
Aug 24, 2015 · ‘No Escape’: Film Review. American tourists fight for their lives during a violent Third World uprising in director John Erick Dowdle's action thriller starring Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and...
