2015 · thriller · action · survival
No Escape
Directed by John Erick Dowdle1h 43m2015
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.
Our read: No Escape (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · action · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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