In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
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.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
27 Aug 2015
fresh:
Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
28 Aug 2015
rotten:
No Escape is bare-bones, shameless, and too obnoxious to stay suspenseful for long.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
4 Sep 2015
fresh:
No Escape is as accomplished as it is vicious.
– Alan Scherstuhl,
Village Voice,
30 Dec 2015
rotten:
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.