No Escape Huh? I know one, the door out of the theater! OOOOHHHHH!!!!!
No Escape was not a film I was looking forward to. Why? Because the director of this film is named John Erick Dowdle. Who is this you might say? Well lets look at his filmography shall we. He directed 'Devil', 'Quarantine', and co-directed 'As Above So Below'. All of this with his brother Drew Dowdle. Bad Movie after Bad Movie after Bad Movie to Shamalyadingdong. So judging by this I was not excited for this film. But I go into a film with no worries or expectations what so ever. I must say that this probably The Dowdle brothers best film...but that is not saying much.
I must say the opening sequence of this is really strong and makes you have great expectations for what
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Giving us not enough time to know about our main characters here. Even though the film tries to give some development to the characters of Lake Bell and Owen Wilson of how met during the middle of the film but other than that the characters are so one-dimensional. The film is trying to get to the action so quick to the point where the editing in the beginning where the family gets settled in is so choppy. Example: Owen Wilson is just like walking on a street and all of a sudden CUT like 2 seconds ahead of the same take or when he is running from the chaos to get back to the hotel where his family is and there is like 13 cuts of him just running on like an alley way to turn left and all of sudden the editing just chops off like 3 or 4 seconds of him with the same camera take. Its like the director does not trust his audience and believes the audience will be so impatient to get to the action already. It is the most disjointed thing I think I have ever …show more content…
The tone reminded me so much of one Owen Wilson's famous films called 'Behind Enemy Lines'. Personally that movie was just an overly serious video game with action to cover up its problem. That is what this film is. The movie wants you to take it seriously with its intense scenes to the political messages it wants to give but then it wants you to suspend your disbelief at one point with scenes like throwing children off of roofs or etc. Pierce Brosnan in this, I am not really sure what he is really doing in this. In the poster you see it shows Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in action intense form. He is barely in the movie and not only that, I think this film could have survived without him in my best