No Escape - Movie Reviews (2024)

This action drama, although it has a basic and predictable script, manages through editing and the dosage of intrigue to keep the viewer interested at all times...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 14, 2024

“No Escape” makes it easy to overlook its shortcomings because you’ll be so fiercely absorbed in the next stressful encounter.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Yet another film that concerns a culturally specific crisis through a white lens.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2022

A film that engages throughout by giving its audience very little breathing room.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2021

One of the most relentlessly aggressive, nonstop thrillers in years.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Stepping out of their known comfort zone, with No Escape the Brothers Dowdle deliver a high octane, heart pounding thriller starring Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan...populat[ing] the film with edge of your seat nail biting tension

Full Review | Nov 29, 2019

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.4/10 | Nov 13, 2019

No Escape feels like it was written by somebody who violently hates the entire Asian continent.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 30, 2019

The counter-intuitive casting of Bell and Wilson pays off but it doesn't make big enough waves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

Perhaps Dowdle and his brother Drew didn't want to make the story too convoluted and complicated, but one can't help but think that this politically-charged thriller has a gaping missing piece.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2019

The film continuously puts Owen Wilson in interesting scenarios and does so effectively. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Feb 15, 2019

Brosnan is a pleasant surprise and the film is a heart stopping mix of white-knuckle action and compelling family drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 2, 2018

I had to make an immediate appointment with my hairdresser to cover the 50 new grey hairs that sprung to life in that 2 hour movie!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2018

In this situation, you do anything necessary, no matter how ugly, to protect what's most important; family

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2017

I don't know about you, but with the real-life killings in Tunisia so recent, I really have no appetite for this sort of thing being fictionalised and served up as entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2017

No Escape plays into the worst fears of Americans abroad, where danger lurks around every corner for U.S. nationals, and compounds this jingoistic sense by fostering the notion that no other lives matter more than those of this one American family.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Oct 17, 2017

While the movie's storyline is simple, its action set pieces are so visceral and intense they had me on the edge of my seat right from the start.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2017

You're unlikely to see an action-thriller this summer that is as intense as No Escape.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2016

This work manages to dehumanise an entire region while providing little entertainment value.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 24, 2016

"No Escape" plays like an "Argo" rewrite by someone who heard about "Argo" from a friend who never saw "Argo."

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 15, 2016