No Escape (2015)

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 from an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

Director:

John Erick Dowdle

Writers:

John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle

Stars:

Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, Owen Wilson

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Owen Wilson	...	Jack Dwyer
Lake Bell	...	Annie Dwyer
Sterling Jerins	...	Lucy Dwyer
Claire Geare	...	Beeze Dwyer
Pierce Brosnan	...	Hammond
Thanawut Ketsaro	...	Samnang (as Thanawut Kasro)
Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak	...	Prak (as Chatchawan Kamonsakpitak)
Sahajak Boonthanakit	...	Kenny Rogers
Tanapol Chuksrida	...	Krit
Nophand Boonyai	...	Concierge
Kanarpat Phintiang	...	Bellhop
Jon Goldney	...	Jerry (as Jonathan Goldney)
Duang Maidork	...	Old Man
Suphornnaphat Jenselius	...	Travel Agent
Barthélemy Son	...	François (as Barthelemy Son)

Storyline

When Jack (Owen Wilson) finds an opportunity to move to Southeast Asia to head his water manufacturing company's new plant there, he immediately jumps at the opportunity and moves his family there. When they get there; they seem to be having problems, the electronics don't work and rarely any cars are seen in the streets. When he goes to the market the next morning, he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent rebellion headed by armed rebels executing foreigners. Jack must get back to the hotel and with the help of a mysterious British "tourist" (Pierce Brosnan), must get his family to the American Embassy in the midst of the chaos.

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Plot Keywords:

asia | fictional country | hotel | revolution | rebellion | 

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Taglines:

Run like hell.

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence including a sexual assault, and for language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Khmer French Thai

Release Date:

26 August 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Coup

Filming Locations:

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$8,111,264 (USA) (28 August 2015)

Gross:

$27,285,953 (USA) (20 November 2015)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bold Films, Brothers Dowdle Productions, Living Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the credits when the cast list roles up none of the American actors are credited for the characters they portrayed in the film

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Goofs

When Jack and his family first arrive to the their hotel The Imperial Lotus, there is a welcoming banner on display in the lobby with Jack's picture on it, along with 2 other men. Jack's picture is on the far left, a black and white picture of an older man is in the middle, and on the right is a picture of a younger man with short brown curly hair (this man also happens to be the man Jack witnesses being executed by the rebels in front of the hotel right after the rioting begins because he is an American). Then later on in the movie, after Jack and his family make it across to the other roof, one of the leaders of the rebels spots Jack. The rebel is wearing the welcoming banner around his neck, he then holds it up and shows Jack the picture of himself, but now the banner has changed. Jacks picture is still on the left and the middle picture is the same, but the far right picture is no longer the young man with curly brown hair, its now an older man with gray hair and glasses.

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Quotes

Jack Dwyer: What are you? British CIA?
Hammond: Something like that
Jack Dwyer: [motions to Kenny] Him too?
Hammond: [Hammond nods] Look I came here more for the women
[grins]
Hammond: well... partially for the women. I came here to pave the way for you

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Connections

Referenced in Midnight Screenings: No Escape/Grease Sing-a-Long (2015)

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Soundtracks

Balinese Trance Ritual
Traditional
Courtesy of the David Lewiston Archives
By arrangement with Seven Seas Music

User Reviews

Review from a Vietnamese: Good movie but just no there yet

No Escape has me on the edge of my seat for several moments. The intensity of the movie is real. Well done producer, but you still miss the shot by that much.

The story is about Jack Dwyer and his families traveling to a South East Asian movie to settle down so he can work for a water company there. However, they soon find out that a coup has broken out and local rebels are trying to kill all foreigners they see because those foreigners are making them slave by control the water sources. Jack has to walk through hell, fight off enemies to escape to Vietnam.

Cool, really good plot. However, it can be much better. I want to know better about the villain, not just mindless criminals. I want a bit of side story and explanation. Although Mr.Hammond did explain a bit, I feel that detail is just too shallow and it is not developed good enough. I feel that bit is not necessary, a normal coup for power is fine for me. Don't mark everything America with star, stripes and eagle.

The movie also has several errors. Such as when Annie told her daughter to hide in the bathroom and lock, she ran the opposite direction in the bedroom, but later the wife was standing in front of the bathroom next to the main door (hotel, 1 bathroom only).

Also when the sniper try to kill them, Hammond and Kenny did a terrible job on keeping an eyes out. Moreover, if I am a rebel and I know they are staying up there, I will send several men to get them right there, not just staying in the tower and shoot. That is a terrible strategy.

Hammond was really cool character, but he does not have enough screen time, which is a total let down.

The ending scene was not well played, I feel it rushes too much and I feel they take only 5 minutes to get to Vietnam border. And the truck was chasing, if they planned to kill, why don't they just shoot when the boat still on the other side? What hold them back? I would prefer the ending scene on a road than the river. As I want to see a bit more standoff between Vietnamese force and rebels.

LIKE: Good plot Decent Acting Good "South East Asian" Atmosphere Hammond Intensity and violence Vietnam is safe haven

DISLIKE: Plot was not well developed in side story Movie errors and nonsense Screen time for Hammond was not enough Ending scene

OTHER STUFF FOR DISCUSSION: OK, the country in the movie, is not real. So calm down guys. It was filmed in Thailand, people speaking Laotian and minority languages and all the signs are in "up side down" Cambodian Khmer.

It is a movie okay? There is no country's city has direct fly from US and couple of miles away from Vietnam, of course.

I personally like this movie, it reflects partly the truth of several South East Asian countries now. Cambodia is going through big political war between the current gov and the politicians who want to wage a war with Vietnam. Thing was really tense at Vietnam's border couple of months ago.

I saw someone rated this movie bad and said it is a racist movie because white people escapes. Calm the f*ck down, it is an action movie, not a lovely soft humane story. Don't bring the refugee crisis in here, movie is movie, real life is real life.

Rate it 7.5/10