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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 24, 2015 14:42:06 GMT -5
Hammond is great - such a character - and Pierce's physicality helps bring that out, as well. There is a reason he sounded a bit like Julian Noble in this - as his character does allude to some activities that Julian liked to participate in . You might even think they could be brothers - but with different professions. www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-no-escape-187-03PLOT: In Southeast Asia for a new job, an American engineer (Owen Wilson) and his family are marked for death when they find themselves in the middle of a deadly coup, where the goal is to murder all foreigners. REVIEW: It’s always nice when a movie you’re not expecting much from comes along and takes you by surprise – especially in these dog days of summer. NO ESCAPE is a film I’ve had my eye on for a while, mostly due to the unconventional casting of Owen Wilson in a thriller, which is his first non-comedic part since 2001’s BEHIND ENEMY LINES. Since then, the movie’s bounced around the calendar a bit and with The Weinstein Company opening it up right at the end of August, my expectations were low. To my surprise, NO ESCAPE was actually a rock-solid little thriller that managed to be reasonably gripping from start-to-finish. While the premise certainly plays on certain western ethnocentric fears, the execution of the material by the Dowdle Brothers is top-notch. While known mostly for their found-footage horror movies (QUARANTINE, AS ABOVE, SO BELOW) John Erick (who has the director’s credit) also did the underrated thriller DEVIL. NO ESCAPE is certainly the slickest and most confident piece of mass-entertainment they’ve made so far and in a way it feels like their calling card for bigger action-heavy assignments. Certainly they’ve made an extremely tense film with NO ESCAPE, which also boasts a number of solid set pieces, including an ultraviolent helicopter attack on a rooftop full of fleeing civilians, and a scene where Wilson, in an effort to save his daughter, throws her from one rooftop-to-another in slo-mo. The pace never lags, with the gritty aesthetic making you feel like you’re plopped right down in the middle of the action, which is quite unsettling considering how brutal the film gets (this one earns its R-rating). Despite being typecast in comedies, Wilson really is extremely effective as the everyman hero. I’ve always been a big fan of these kinds of “against-type” casting choices, and Wilson makes for a believable family man. There’s no phony action hero posturing and when he and his wife (the excellent Lake Bell) are forced to kill to protect their kids, the violence is brutal. Pierce Brosnan also gets a really juicy part as a shady expatriate boasting a few nifty scars who, naturally, proves to be a handy guy to have around when you’re running for your life. It’s Brosnan’s character that allows the Dowdle brothers to sprinkle in some political commentary, with his character having a moment where he admits to being part of a larger problem where western governments economically enslave nations such as the one here, which is interesting as it makes Wilson’s hero as much of an opportunist as everyone else – even if his motivations aren’t inherently sinister. Brosnan is excellent and in a way, NO ESCAPE feels almost like an unofficial sequel to THE MATADOR, with his character here having a lot in common with that movie’s hit-man anti-hero. Also - you get to see Brosnan sing Huey Lewis’ ‘Heart & Soul’ during a karaoke jam. That alone makes it a must-see, right? The only real problem with NO ESCAPE is that by making the rebels here so uniformly mindless and violent it makes the movie seem quite jingoistic, with only a few moments scattered here and there that suggest not every non-white character in the film is insane. However, I wouldn’t go so far as to call NO ESCAPE racist as it honestly seems like the only goal here was to make a grounded action-thriller and it that regard NO ESCAPE really works. I wound up having an excellent time with it and it’s well-worth checking out as a solidly crafted piece of entertainment. Rating: 8/10
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Post by Ace on Aug 24, 2015 18:08:05 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 24, 2015 20:39:17 GMT -5
Critical Movie News @criticalmovies_ 5h5 hours ago Here is another new poster for 'No Escape' #OwenWilson #PierceBrosnan
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Post by Ace on Aug 24, 2015 21:08:51 GMT -5
Screening tonight
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Post by Ace on Aug 24, 2015 21:12:53 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Aug 24, 2015 21:28:37 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 24, 2015 22:31:28 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 25, 2015 0:23:20 GMT -5
www.ramascreen.com/what-no-escape-stars-lake-bell-and-owen-wilson-think-of-their-co-starformer-james-bond-pierce-brosnan/What NO ESCAPE Stars Lake Bell And Owen Wilson Think Of Their Co-Star/Former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan NEW rama August 24, 2015 In The Weinstein Company’s new thriller, “No Escape,” from the Dowdle brothers directing team, Owen Wilson and Lake Bell play a married couple with two children and they all move to their new overseas home and finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup d'etat, in which the rebel army takes over the legit government and they blame Americans for their suffering. Owen Wilson, as the father, has to protect his family from the danger of these crowds that are trying to kill them. Pierce Brosnan plays a character named Hammond who at first seems to be just another happy-go-lucky guy looking to have fun in the country, turns out, he’s there to protect Owen’s family. At the press junket, I asked Lake Bell what it was like to have former James Bond protecting them and she has some kind words to say about Pierce Brosnan. "It’s a confident time, ya know, when he comes in. What I love about Pierce in this character is that he is very mysterious but wonderfully rugged, and kind of a humorous respite to all the insanity which ya know obviously, it means Owen and Pierce kinda switched roles in this, where Owen is sort of the straight man and the action star while Pierce is singing karaoke and drinking, ya know, being kind of messy. But he’s wonderful and I adore him and I’m really happy to know him, it’s so silly to say this, ‘Pierce Brosnan is a class act’ but he really is a class act, and so ya, he’s cool, he’ll tell you all kind of stories too, he’ll indulge in that." Owen Wilson goes one step further, explaining what Pierce does in the morning.. "It felt like we were in good hands. Pierce also lives in Malibu and so sometimes I’ll see him out there and when you see him, it’s like he’s always even at 9 in the morning getting coffee and he still looks like James Bond. I feel like I’m kind of rolling out of bed, kind of staggering up to the coffee place and there comes Pierce and he just looks like a million bucks.” Last year, I had the opportunity to interview Pierce Brosnan while he was promoting “November Man” so I totally understand what Owen Wilson and Lake Bell were talking about, because as I interviewed Brosnan that day, it did feel like I was in the presence of James Bond even though it’s been more than a decade now since Brosnan retired from the 007 role. I guess that’s what happens to whomever gets to be in those shoes, that Bond persona is something they’ll never be able to shake off, it stays with them, and that’s not a bad thing. Make sure you go watch the suspenseful “No Escape” in theaters everywhere, August 26, 2015.
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Post by rosafermu on Aug 25, 2015 3:47:19 GMT -5
Tomorrow in Spain. Thanks eaz
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 25, 2015 11:13:43 GMT -5
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Post by rosafermu on Aug 26, 2015 3:40:55 GMT -5
Many thanks
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 26, 2015 16:31:31 GMT -5
They talk about Pierce around 2:10 (but, if you haven't seen the movie yet, the clip they show of him is a bit spoilery) ...
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Post by rosafermu on Aug 27, 2015 3:42:04 GMT -5
Many thanks
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Post by Ace on Aug 28, 2015 7:01:00 GMT -5
The Weather section from Today is now on YT
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 28, 2015 15:46:33 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 28, 2015 20:00:39 GMT -5
Lake talks about Pierce at 2:55
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 28, 2015 21:29:27 GMT -5
Song/Video from the soundtrack ...
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 29, 2015 20:51:35 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 31, 2015 0:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 31, 2015 17:36:38 GMT -5
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