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No Way Out. Action. 114 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1987. Roger Ebert. August 14, 1987. 4 min read. “No Way Out” is one of those thrillers like “ Jagged Edge,” where the plot gives us a great deal of information, but the more we know, the less we understand. It’s like a terrifying jigsaw puzzle.
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) meets a young woman, Susan Atwell (Sean Young), and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice ...
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The summer's best movie is No Way Out, a complex, rip-roaring suspense tale with a difference: It's about believable people caught in a real jam. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 5,...
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No Way Out. Robbers Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark) and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks (Sidney Poitier), the hospital's only black...
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No Way Out (1987) offers the cinema-goer a new sort of villain: worse than Russian spies disguised as American Naval Heroes, worse than prostitutes, worse than ex-assassins from shadowy black ops death squads.
Los Angeles Times. 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.
Mar 9, 2006 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s No Way Out was the Hollywood golden boy’s buffer project between his two Oscar-snagging instant masterpieces A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve.
Aug 14, 1987 · “No Way Out’s” canny update switches the locale from a Luce-like Manhattan magazine empire to the Washington of pricey executive power breakfasts and the warrens of the Pentagon.
"No Way Out" is a government thriller about an officer wrongly accused of murder--when the Secretary of State himself is the culprit trying to avoid a scandal by launching a top-secret cover-up. Costner is the officer, and Gene Hackman is the Secretary of State.