American Ultra
2015
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Aug 26, 2015 · The Dwyers manage to make it to the roof of their hotel—a favorite of visiting Americans—but they are strafed by gunfire from a helicopter and are forced to make their escape by leaping to the roof of the building next door.
48% Tomatometer 160 Reviews 62% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings. American businessman Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson), wife Annie and their two young daughters arrive in Southeast Asia to begin a new...
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- Mystery & Thriller, Action
- R
Aug 25, 2015 · As “No Escape” begins, the Dwyers are landing, befriended on their flight by Hammond (Pierce Brosnan), a seatmate with the rough beard, fresh scars and randy cheer of an old post-colonial hand.
No Escape gets a questionable start but speeds to the finish for a win. It's the most intense and breathtaking movie of 2015, with a stellar performance from Owen Wilson.
A synthetic pastiche of sci-fi, action movies (borrowing feely from the superior Mad Max movies), and routine prison drama that's a sensless, incoherent mishmash that even a reliable pro like Liota...
No Escape is a strong emotional and physical battle for survival and will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. 7.5/10 A must see, and a vastly underrated movie. 24 out of 38 found this helpful.
Aug 26, 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.
Aug 24, 2015 · Film Review: ‘No Escape’. A violent uprising in Southeast Asia absolutely ruins an American family's best-laid plans in this misbegotten thriller. By Justin Chang. Courtesy of Bold Films.
Aug 25, 2015 · If you can look past its hands-off approach to a very real issue, Dowdle's thriller offers a tight, exhilarating and brutal look at one American family's escape from a savage coup d'état.
Aug 26, 2015 · No Escape, while cruel, is often uncommonly suspenseful. And by pitting its white leads against the citizen hordes of Southeast Asia, No Escape is also uncommonly honest about the fears and assumptions that fuel adventure fiction — here, the Other is not abstracted away to orcs or aliens.
