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- Impressive production values can’t redeem the senseless plot of “No Escape,” a synthetic pastiche of sci-fi actioners a la the Mad Max films and Hollywood prison dramas. Incoherent mix of genre conventions, dearth of big-name stars, and absence of female characters should make the appeal of this mishmash less universal than it might have been.
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Apr 29, 1994 · A prisoner named Robbins ( Ray Liotta) is taken to a futuristic colony run by a sadistic warden ( Michael Lerner ). He arrives by streamlined monorail at the prison, which towers like a city of the future over the surrounding desert sands.
The movie received mixed reviews from critics pointing out the familiarity of the film to other previous films like Escape from New York, Mad Max, or various prison films but on a strictly action oriented level there's solid entertainment value on display.
Apr 29, 1994 · No Escape: Directed by Martin Campbell. With Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon. A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts.
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- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Martin Campbell
- 1994-04-29
No Escape R 1994 1h 58m Action Adventure Sci-Fi List 57% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 41% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings The warden of a 2022 prison sends an ex-Marine (Ray Liotta) to a jungle...
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- Martin Campbell
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- Ray Liotta
Apr 25, 1994 · “No Escape” has its fair share of gun-blazing mayhem and bloody fistfights, as well as some off-putting decapitations, but ultimately the futuristic, prison and action elements don’t jell.
Apr 25, 2024 · Seemingly forgotten, Martin Campbell’s No Escape from 1994 offers up dystopian thrills on a medium-sized budget. Prescient in its discussion of private prisons, the film also seems like a bit of a throwback, taking inspiration from ‘80s action films and ‘70s exploitation fare.
No Escape, released in some countries as Escape from Absolom and Absolom 2022, is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Martin Campbell. It stars Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Michael Lerner and Ernie Hudson. It was based on the 1987 novel The Penal Colony by Richard Herley.
