No Escape
A businessman decides to start in new life with his family in their new house oversees, but his plan to improves the quality of the water in the region draws him and the family into a life threatening political coup.
24 March 1979, New York City, New York, USA
19 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
15 June 2004, New York City, New York, USA
April 15, 2016
"No Escape" plays like an "Argo" rewrite by someone who heard about "Argo" from a friend who never saw "Argo."
December 30, 2015
No Escape is as accomplished as it is vicious.
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.
April 06, 2016
This appalling escape movie takes racism towards Asians to an extreme not seen for many years in mainstream films.
July 14, 2016
You're unlikely to see an action-thriller this summer that is as intense as No Escape.
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.
September 04, 2015
No Escape is bare-bones, shameless, and too obnoxious to stay suspenseful for long.
May 24, 2016
This work manages to dehumanise an entire region while providing little entertainment value.
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.
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.
August 28, 2015
Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up.
