“No Escape” with Owen Wilson now on Netflix

Never heard of it, thanks for the tip. Looks like it even had a decent box office. I read a couple of interesting reviews. Horribly clichéd, no political context is given, no reason for why everyone hates Americans, but it's a slick thrill ride!

Stealth Bond appearance by Brosnan.

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Still waiting for No Escape will Ray liotta the 90s movie

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I just read the description for this movie. It reminds me of this recent OT thread:

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/short-documentary-shows-how-inmates-run-the-prisons-in-venezuela/95467921/

Although the trailer kinda looks like Mad Max without vehicles.

No Escape (1994) is easily procured through other less-savory means. It looks interesting and I like Ray Liotta, I'll probably give it a watch tonight.

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Saw it in theaters. It's really good and INTENSE AS frick. And it surprised me that most people have never heard of it.

But it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time and feels like it's pretty realistic for the most part.

Really good movie.

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Watched a few weeks ago, damn it was intense.

Watched this last night bc of this thread. Me n Mrs jkyle both enjoyed. Thanks

The rooftop scene is so intense.

I watched this last night after seeing this thread. Not a good movie t start late at night. I was up waaayyyy past my bedtime.

Watched it in the movie theater when it first came out. I can remember being terrified until it ended. What a rush!

OK I watched it, and yup, like everyone is saying, once the action starts you're on the edge of your seat for the rest of the movie.

I wanted to offer a partial defense from the charges of stereotype-filled xenophobia from the reviews I read (that I mentioned in my post above).

On one hand, the "Kan Chow Chicken" scene, and the opium den / brothel scene weren't really necessary, but there was a very reasonable political backstory explaining the anger, and it wasn't all "scary unidentified brown people hating Americans."

At least three of the natives helped out the family, and two of them did it at risk to their own lives. So there was a distinction between the rebels and ordinary citizens who showed compassion for the scared foreign family.

The reason for the uprising, the private foreign control of water, is a real and timely issue. I first heard about this years ago when I read about protests in Bolivia. Right now the big story is what's going on in Chile, but this is happening all over the world, including at the local level in the US. For a more nuanced view and history on the the subject, I found this really interesting academic article.

And finally, Brosnan's character concedes that it was nefarious foreign influence that created the situation in the first place, so the charges of naked xenophobia are simply false. That being said, this movie was made just six years ago; would it be green-lighted today?

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So where is the movie supposedly set ? I'm thinking Cambodia ?

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Well the country is unnamed but a review I read said that it suggested Cambodia. But it screamed to me Thailand, where it was filmed.