(John Eric
Dowdle/2015/USA & Thailand)
A
nightmarish scenario of a family stationed in a foreign land for work
purposes when a revolt against the government occurs which involves
anti-western aggression. If dealt with properly this is a perfectly
valid set up and plot line but No Escape deals solely in cheap
thrills and the unnamed country and its crazy, rioting rebels,
borders on outright racism. There is so little detail given to the
back story of the political upheaval and the conceit of the main
character as a target for the aggression as a representative of
American corporate/colonial power is so flimsy that there really is
no escape from this paper thin plot. To sympathise with the central
characters is to blithely paintbrush Asian cultures into a mush of
potentially crazy left wing rent a mobs, like it’s so unstable over
there in generic Asialand country dude, this could so happen. The
introduction of white knight super agent Pierce Brosnan takes the
biscuit altogether and raises it to a whole other level of shite.
Absolute zero effort at creating a believable script. It’s just out and out bad.
(0/5)
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