2008 · action · thriller · music
The Escapist
Directed by Rupert Wyatt1h 42m2008
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
Our read: The Escapist (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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