No Escape

2015 • 103 minutos

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Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, and Lake Bell star in this action-packed thrill-ride. In their new home in Southeast Asia, an American family suddenly finds themselves caught in the middle of a violent coup. They must frantically look for safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

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This movie cut to the chase. That made it intense and exciting. It was good. Could have been great. I would have traded 15 minutes of escape scenes for a little more character development. You meet the family for 5 minutes on the plane and learn next to nothing about them. American water corporations are ruthless - banning the collection of rain water, charging for tokens from the thirsty and dying. None of that was ever even revealed. Just a quick admission that Britain and America were at fault. OK- back to the chase scenes. If it began in the US - with him at work and the family at home I think we all would have been even more invested. Seeing his side as a naive employee - then the reality he confronts abroad, and a couple minutes showing how villagers were effect by the water policies - would have taken the film to a whole nother level. Love Lake Bell and Wilson carried his load as leading man. I'm not a Pierce Bronson fan - but he was good too. Good, but not great. Glad I rented it - kind of - For $12.99 early new release - better off waiting for $599 on cable or satellite.

No Escape == Full Panic Starting out, the viewer experiences a family moving to a new home in an idyllic, exotic land where the material deficiencies add to the sense of adventure. And then, out of nowhere, in an instant their new home, due to a chaotic populist uprising directed at all foreigners makes every moment of survival a miracle, but also merely a step away from the next hopeless situation. The street scenes were totally realistic, and chaotic. What carries this film was the cameras dwelling on the frantic, terrified reactions of each family member. The three adult leads, but also especially the two children, made this "action film" into horrifying drama. One understands that at this level of visceral reaction, any act/response is acceptable if it leads to surviving the next minute. While there is a back story of First World economic dominance of Third World countries, that political aspect is forgotten as one watches the two parents take every risk to protect their children. This is not about politics at all, but the deepest motivation in people.

Giving this movie 3-stars for the action, thriller, suspense, entertainment value, decent acting from Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan, but 0-stars to the preposterous leftist liberal social commentary bullcrap (corporations are bad/terrorists are just average people trying to protect their women and children by raping women and mass executing innocents - cough, isis, cough...) that it is trying to peddle. Could've been 5-stars, but why must Hollywood have to preach about their leftist liberal ideas and values and not just make a movie that just does away with the hollow social commentaries that even completely negates it during the course of the movie. Alas, Hollywood can't help it especially that they have a captive audience.