No Escape

Didn't hate the movie, but have one question: where was Marek just after the execution that went wrong? After his friend killed himself in the pool, Robbins is about to be executed. There are four people in the room: Robbins, Marek, the executioner and a fourth guy with a mask. Bad guy Marek is standing in the doorway and the executioner drops the knife-blade. The guy with the mask (why the mask, I would never have guessed he was the good guy/spy anyway) blocks the falling knife-blade. In a split second the good guy moves three meters sideways and pierces the executioner with a spear from behind. In that very same split second Marek seems to have decided not to witness the execution after all and simply vanishes from the room. I am willing to forget the impossible three meter jump, but not the disappearance of Marek. I know, there are supposed to be holes in the scenario of a film like this. But this one is HUGE. That must be the explanation: Marek dropped in this hole.

"No Escape" is probably the worst movie ever (next to "Houseguest"). It is completely mindless trash that doesn't even quicken the pulse. The production values suck and Liotta has never been a good leading man.

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Somebody else paid for me to see it at a $.99 theater and I wish that I still had that time back. The action sucks. The characters are boring. The scenery is boring. The plot is trivial, hackneyed, and ill-conceived. The acting is wooden. Avoid it at all costs.

Well, after reading the other comments it looks like people either liked this movie or they hated it. I happen to be one who liked it, and very much. It's not one of the movies where you sit and think deeply about it when the plot is complex and twisted, and it doesn't have "Star Wars" special effects, either. But I still enjoyed it. I thought the plot was creative, and the action scenes were fun. This is just a good-time movie to sit down and watch whenever your in the mood. Just because it doesn't rank with some of the higher emotional and special effect spectacular movies, doesn't necessarily mean it stinks. If you got nothing to do and are sick of the box office hits than I think you should take a look at this one.

This film has at last been released on Blu-Ray, though apparently only in Australia. It was a good excuse to see it again, I remember how much I liked it when I first saw it many years ago. It's a prescient vision of a horrible future (but only four years away now!) when prisons are run by private firms for profit and recalcitrant prisoners are sent to the island of Absolom to finish each other off. The plot, such as it is, provides lots of opportunities for gory scenes and exuberant special effects, and the landscapes look even lusher in high definition. There are some great performances, but my favourite has to be Ian McNeice as the hypochondriac and finicky Tom King, who more than makes up for the total absence of women in the film. Enjoy.

I accidentally saw the film on TV the other night. The opening scenes made me cringe at the horrific use of graphics. But as the film progresses it becomes less and less important that the special effects and plot suck. The film is work of pure genius!

What can I say about this movie: it is not one of the best movies of my life, but I will surely remember it. I enjoyed it because the plot keeps you watching the TV and the characteristic that most struck me was that it is unforeseeable: you say:"now it will go on in this way..." but "this way" will not happen. This movie could be identified as a mix between Mad Max 3 and 2043: The Fortress (I hope the original title be this). I prefer Mad Max, but surely this movie is better than Costner's Waterworld. My conclusion is: don't spend money to rent this movie, but if it is on Tv, and you don't know what to do in the evening, watch it, you will enjoy it.

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There's nothing good to say about this movie. The acting is bad, the story is lame, and the special effects, which was supposed to save this movie, are nothing special. The only funny things is when you can guess that now is this guy going to land on a sharp pole, or when a man gets his head chopped of, and it stays on for some seconds. And that's not good it's only funny because it's so bad. To make this a complete failure the movie just stops in the middle of nowhere, (maybe they ran out of money), but our hero is flying off in a helicopter while we know that 12 other hostile choppers are on their way to the scene. What happens with those? No answer is given, but who cares. Just don't watch this one!