While the film's behind-the-scenes look into the world of Washington bureaucracy is appealing, the movie is a complete letdown as a thriller, dissolving into implausible silliness.

| Jul 29, 2013

No Way Out emerges, paradoxically, as a film that is better than it has to be and not as good as it ought to be, but there is skill here, as well as an admirable willingness to try something new.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2013

Good performances from a strong cast and paranoid plotting enough to keep even the staunchest of remake nay-sayers quiet. Hitchockian production with a modern twist.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 29, 2013

No Way Out's greatest prize is Costner, a leading man at last: fiercely good, intelligent, appreciatively sensual in a performance balanced perfectly between action and introspection.

| Jul 29, 2013

A thriller that grabs you even before the ironies of its plot kick in is a thriller you don't want to miss. No Way Out is that sort of movie, a thriller that's thrilling throughout.

| Jul 29, 2013

A juicy thriller-romance bursting out of the Pentagon's arid corridors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2013

Viewers who arrive at the movie five minutes late and leave five minutes early will avoid the setup and payoff for the preposterous twist that spoils this lively, intelligent remake of 1948's The Big Clock.

| May 23, 2011

No Way Out is an effective updating and revamping of the 1948 film noir classic The Big Clock.

| Mar 30, 2009

It's the kind of intricately plotted suspense film with juicy secondary parts (Will Patton, George Dzundza, Iman, Howard Duff) that used to be churned out in the 1940s.

| Mar 30, 2009

A very convincing nightmare, and if Hackman gives too rounded a performance to approach the omniscient evil of Laughton's original, Patton assumes the mantle as Brice's henchman, while Costner confirms his arrival as a star.

| Jan 26, 2006

It's so effective, in fact, that when it's all over, you might want to sit through the beginning again just to see if the end is justified by the means. I suspect that it is.

| May 20, 2003

A superior example of the genre, a film in which a simple situation grows more and more complex until it turns into a nightmare not only for the hero but also for everyone associated with him.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

In thriller terms it's close to irresistible and enormously entertaining.

| Jan 1, 2000

The film makes such good use of Washington and builds suspense so well that it transcends a plot bordering on ridiculous.

| Jan 1, 2000