I saw "No Escape", starring Owen Wilson-The Night at the Museum movies, Marley & Me; Lake Bell-Million Dollar Arm, No Strings Attached; Sahajak Boonthanakit-Only God Forgives, Elephant White and Pierce Brosnan-The November Man, Mars Attacks!, and Oh Yeah, a couple of Bond movies.
This is a good action/thriller with an unlikely hero. You don't normally think of Owen Wilson as being in an action movie, or at least I don't, but he is really good here. He plays a family man with Lake as his wife and they have two young daughters. Owen is a water purification engineer from Austin, Texas that gets sent to a southeast Asian country-I don't remember an actual name for the country being mentioned-that borders Vietnam to start a new job. About 5 or 6 hours after they land and get settled into their hotel, the Prime Minister of the country is assassinated by rebels who then decide that any and all foreign devils in their country must be killed. Not good news for Owen & family. Luckily, they run into a British tourist, Pierce, and his Kenny Rogers loving associate, Sahajak, who try to help them survive. Owen & family must try to stay alive and then, just maybe escape-but there is no escape, according to the title of the movie- from the machete slinging and gun toting rebels with bloodshed on their minds. One thing I really liked was that they did not just turn Owen into an action hero like Vin Diesel or The Rock, although there is nothing wrong with those two fine action stars. Owen is just a normal man doing whatever he can to protect his family. The movie was shot in Thailand and written by John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew. John also directed it. If their names are not familiar to you, they are responsible for As Above, So Below, Quarantine and Full Moon Rising. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-including a sexual assault but no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 43 minutes. I really enjoyed it and would buy it on DVD.
This is a good action/thriller with an unlikely hero. You don't normally think of Owen Wilson as being in an action movie, or at least I don't, but he is really good here. He plays a family man with Lake as his wife and they have two young daughters. Owen is a water purification engineer from Austin, Texas that gets sent to a southeast Asian country-I don't remember an actual name for the country being mentioned-that borders Vietnam to start a new job. About 5 or 6 hours after they land and get settled into their hotel, the Prime Minister of the country is assassinated by rebels who then decide that any and all foreign devils in their country must be killed. Not good news for Owen & family. Luckily, they run into a British tourist, Pierce, and his Kenny Rogers loving associate, Sahajak, who try to help them survive. Owen & family must try to stay alive and then, just maybe escape-but there is no escape, according to the title of the movie- from the machete slinging and gun toting rebels with bloodshed on their minds. One thing I really liked was that they did not just turn Owen into an action hero like Vin Diesel or The Rock, although there is nothing wrong with those two fine action stars. Owen is just a normal man doing whatever he can to protect his family. The movie was shot in Thailand and written by John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew. John also directed it. If their names are not familiar to you, they are responsible for As Above, So Below, Quarantine and Full Moon Rising. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-including a sexual assault but no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 43 minutes. I really enjoyed it and would buy it on DVD.