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.

| Dec 30, 2015

No Escape is as accomplished as it is vicious.

| Dec 30, 2015

The nice-westerners-v-murderous-foreigners vibe ... blossoms into shrieking xenophobia.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 7, 2015

The thriller No Escape has one or two moments of brilliance interspersed with many very silly ones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2015

No Escape is bare-bones, shameless, and too obnoxious to stay suspenseful for long.

| Sep 4, 2015

It is to both No Escape's credit and discredit that it feels so much like the sort of film they used to make.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2015

The film's technical sensibilities are as outmoded as its rotten worldview.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 3, 2015

At times the tone becomes so apocalyptic you swear you're watching a zombie movie in flip-flops, as if the mob's been infected by an anti-American rage virus.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2015

It's essentially World War Z with Asians.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 3, 2015

Who are the rebels? What's their beef? Whom are they overthrowing? Never mind all that. Just feel the cinegenic gusts of panic, skilled story ploys and give-it-everything main performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2015

Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up.

| Aug 28, 2015

The odd plus point - Wilson's surprisingly strong action chops, Lake Bell's solid performance as a terrified mom - are spoiled by the archaic tone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2015

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.

| Aug 27, 2015

Dowdle sticks closely to the family's perspective, for better and for worse; though fairly effective at conveying their terror, he fails to establish any sort of social or political context for the story.

| Aug 27, 2015

Even ignoring the racism-which is pretty much impossible-No Escape is a clich-ridden, artless relic.

| Original Score: D | Aug 27, 2015

The B-movie kicks of scenes like the one in which Jack, with the assistance of some speed ramping, hurls his children across rooftops into his wife's arms as part of an escape plan, never overcome the rankness of the underlying premise.

| Aug 27, 2015

A nearly two-hour thrill ride that, tired clich that it is, really does keep you on the edge of your seat.

| Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2015

Strict plausibility isn't necessary in these movies, but you can't just throw it out the window, and "No Escape" shows why.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2015

This movie really moves. But a fleet of tanks couldn't help the brothers Dowdle push past the plot holes in the screwiest mix of suspense and stereotypes since Michael Bay was a pup

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 27, 2015

Whatever seeds of social justice and emotional nuance No Escape may be attempting to sow are undercut by the film's melodramatic valorization of family values.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2015