- Release Date: 1994
- Runtime: 118 min
- Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Starring: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon ... see all
- Director: Martin Campbell
- Plot: Robbins is sent to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you only get out of when you die. Since nobody ever gets out of the prison,... Read more
User Reviews
Better Than How It First Looks
Dec 04, 2007
ccthemovieman-1 - imdb.com
Dec 04, 2007ccthemovieman-1 - imdb.com
On the surface, this looks like a dumb movie which is overly violent and too seedy because it features nothing but hardened criminals plus the normal sadistic warden Hollywood always shows in all modern-day films.But....it turns out the story isn't... Full review
Actually This Is Kind Of Fun
Aug 12, 2005
no-skyline - imdb.com
Aug 12, 2005no-skyline - imdb.com
Ray Liota stars in this sci-fi actioner, sent to an in-escapable island prison he bands together with a group of fellow inmates to fight off a band of savages. Stuart Wilson plays Marek the psycho leader of the savages and... Full review
Great Movie
Aug 10, 2005
rford730 - yahoo.com
Aug 10, 2005rford730 - yahoo.com
Imagine if we did this today? I would love to send our most dangerous criminals to an Island and alow them to kill themselves. Make them live like animals.... Full review
MAREK!!!!
Aug 10, 2005
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Aug 10, 2005wearebc2000 - yahoo.com
What do you get when you take Ernie Hudson, Lance Henriksen, Ray Liotta and a ridiculously over-the-top villain, and stick them on an island? An instant classic!... Full review
no more denture swaping
Apr 06, 2005
werewolfpixie - yahoo.com
Apr 06, 2005werewolfpixie - yahoo.com
after ten years i finally broke down and watched this movie. didnt really have any interest in it but hey my husband wanted to see and well i watched. we caught just right after ray liotta was dropped off on the... Full review
Underrated Prison Action
Dec 15, 2004
falkar - imdb.com
Dec 15, 2004falkar - imdb.com
On the surface, 'No Escape' is just another generic action movie set in a prison environment. An island prison from which escape is impossible? An Alcatraz by any other name... Plus the 'two faction-one nice, one evil' has overtones of... Full review
Trashy but very good fun
Sep 17, 2004
wierzbowskisteedman - imdb.com
Sep 17, 2004wierzbowskisteedman - imdb.com
Ray Liotta plays Robbins, a criminal sent to an island prison where, due to lack of supervision, the inmates have formed two tribes. The hippy tribe is led by the great Lance Henriksen, while Stuart Wilson enjoys himself delivering cheesy... Full review
Goodfella. Badfella.
Mar 30, 2004
MovieAddict2008 - imdb.com
Mar 30, 2004MovieAddict2008 - imdb.com
Decent enough action flick about a futuristic island penal colony that no one has ever escaped - enter murderer Robbins (Ray Liotta) who manages to break all the rules and band together with a group of fellow escapees (Kevin Dillon... Full review
Very underrated Entertainment
Mar 29, 2004
liammurphy1 - imdb.com
Mar 29, 2004liammurphy1 - imdb.com
Soldier Ray (Goodfellas) Liotta is sent to Prison for shooting one of his commanding officers in the year 2022- but it's no ordinary Prison, they send if to a deserted Island where bad ass criminals are taken and left alone... Full review
Mad Max meets Fortress
Jan 28, 2004
Grann-Bach - imdb.com
Jan 28, 2004Grann-Bach - imdb.com
When I first sat down, to see this movie, I wasn't expecting much; In fact, I was preparing myself mentally for a total flop... but it really took me by surprise. It's actually quite interesting, and has some good action... Full review
Critics Reviews
James Berardinelli's Reviews
No Escape is effective, but not superlative.
Filmed in Australia, No Escape boasts gorgeous scenery, and it's easy to accept Absalom as a lush hell.
In fact, Liotta is a legitimate actor, and a pretty good one at that.
... Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a terrific movie to look at
No Escape " obviously absorbed the filmmakers at the technical level, and it is fun to look at its sets and costumes.
The special effects in this scene are cheerfully incompenent: We look at the sea
... Full Review
News
No Escape
moviesonline.ca –
1994-04-29
No Escape.... its the future..Ray Liotta is a prisoner having killed his commanding officer for making him do things he cant live with anymore. ... Full Article
No Escape (R)
washingtonpost.com –
1994-04-29
Brio-bristling, Bambi-eyed Ray Liotta falls somewhere between Conan and Gilligan as a court-martialed Marine sentenced to life in "No Escape," a loopy futuristic prison-break flick set on an island paradise populated by what appear to be gangs of Pier 1... ... Full Article
No Escape (R)
washingtonpost.com –
1994-04-29
This one's for the boys: "No Escape" is a Frankensteinian patchwork of movie cliches -- there are huge chunks of "Mad Max," "The Lord of the Flies," "Zardoz" and "The Prisoner" and stray parts from every old pirate movie, muscle-pic,... ... Full Article
Plot Instead of being taken to a psychiatrist ward, Ray Liotta is taken to a remote island where it's only inhabitants are other patients. Here he meets the various factions that have been formed, each with their own agenda. ... Full Article

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