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 in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Writers: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle
Stars: Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, Owen Wilson
Storyline:
When Jack (Owen Wilson) finds an opportunity to move to Southeast Asia
to head his water manufacturing company's new plant there, he
immediately jumps at the opportunity and moves his family there. When
they get there; they seem to be having problems, the electronics don't
work and rarely any cars are seen in the streets. When he goes to the
market the next morning, he finds himself caught in the middle of a
violent rebellion headed by armed rebels executing foreigners. Jack must
get back to the hotel and with the help of a mysterious British
"tourist" (Pierce Brosnan), must get his family to the American Embassy
in the midst of the chaos. But is there any escape?
No Escape Movie Reviews:
An extremely well-made
survival film in an alien urban setting about the potential threats to
Westerners in the non-Western world. Owen Wilson does a brilliant job of
reprising his "Behind Enemy Lines" role as an American frantically
improvising escape and evasion from a hostile group intent on killing
him in a foreign country - this time raising the ante by adding his
evident love and concern for the lives of family: his wife (the awesome
Lake Bell, who displays a spectrum of emotions that realistically covers
all the bases: love, fear, uncertainty, doubt, panic, and an
adrenaline-charged act of raw courage) and his children, also
realistically portrayed by Sterling Jerins, previously seen in World War
Z, and and the uncredited Claire Geare. Pierce Brosnan wears his role
as a world-weary but heroic clandestine operative like an old shoe, and
the Asian actors with speaking roles do a highly credible job as well,
in this realistic, yet allegorical film about the threat to Western
lives in a non-Western country where a hotel is attacked, the American
embassy is burned and the embassy staff are slaughtered, and Westerners
are assassinated in cold blood by militants.
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