No Escape (1994)
- Directed by
- Martin Campbell
- Genre
- action film, science fiction film, prison film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 492 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A former marine is sent to a prison island where inmates have gone savage. He must use his skills to survive and escape the violent chaos.
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What happens
No Escape, released in some countries as Escape from Absolom and Absolom 2022, is a 1994 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. In a dystopian future, a former Reconnaissance Marine serves life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannibalistic prisoners. It was the first film collaboration between the director Martin Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, who both later worked on The Mask of Zorro and Vertical Limit, released in 1998 and 2000, and the film was also the third collaboration between the producer Gale Anne Hurd and Henriksen, after The Terminator and Aliens, both directed by James Cameron, and released in 1984 and 1986. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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