![]() The lossless mix here is a good one, providing some nice dual channel action up front alongside clean, concise dialogue and properly balanced levels. The main audio mix on the disc is a 24-bit English language DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track but two LPCM 2.0 Stereo mixes, English and French, are also provided with removable subtitles available in English, English SDH and French. There's very little print damage outside of a few small white specks now and the end result is an appropriately film-like transfer. Black levels are fine and skin tones look good. There's a good amount of depth to the image and colors look to be accurately reproduced here. Rising pretty far above what DVD could offer, generally we get nice detail, especially in medium and close ups, and solid texture too. There's some softness inherent in a few scenes and there are certain shots where the lighting saps out some of the detail you might hope would be there, but these are stylistic choices rather than transfer flaws. The overall picture quality here is pretty solid. No Escape on region A Blu-ray from Unearthed Films on a 50GB Blu-ray disc framed at 2.40.1 widescreen in AVC encoded 1080p high definition. O'Connor, Michael Lerner and Kevin Dillon are also pretty decent. Supporting work from Ernie Hudson, Kevin J. Lance Henriksen is pretty awesome in this but that should go without saying as Lance Henriksen is awesome in pretty much everything he does, even complete bottom of the barrel movies, while Stuart Wilson does some quality scenery chewing as the heavy. He's got a bit of charisma and if he's not the most believable tough guy, well, he does work in a fish-out-of-water sort of way. I made a joke about Liotta not being Kurt Russell, and that stands, but he's not bad here. There are some pretty solid stunt set pieces in here too, and the action is more than competent in its execution and choreography. ![]() The movie had a decent enough budget behind it to ensure that it looks quite good - the sets work well and the costumes are just fine. Campbell has good control over the film's pacing here, keeping the action coming pretty regularly but still giving us snippets of character development here and there to make the people in the picture interesting enough. The end result? Well, it's pretty entertaining. Still, the movie is fun B-grade entertainment, taking typical dystopian future elements common in sci-fi films and adding elements from the aforementioned Lord Of The Flies and whatever prison break movie you'd care to name to spice things up a bit. If you swap out Manhattan for an island prison, No Escape is a lot like Escape From New York, but Ray Liotta is no Kurt Russell and as such, J.T. He works with The Father and his crew to make this happen, all while Marek, with bloody vengeance on his mind, plans retaliation… Robbins, however, figures he can sort out a way to get past all of this and escape. He explains to Robbins the methodology behind the security systems put in place on the island, the kind that keep all of the hooligans and nogoodniks imprisoned there from escaping. ![]() After making his way to relative safety, Robbins meets The Father (Lance Henriksen), the leader of a more genteel population of prisoners. Rather than politely decline, he steals the tribe's rocket launcher and runs into the jungle. Robbins is forced to fight Marek's bodyguard, and when he manages to not only win but to kill the behemoth, Marek offers Robbins the job. Robbins is left on the island where he meets Marek (Stuart Wilson), the leader of The Outsiders, a tribe of prisoners who use violence and force as their way of life. The warden responds to this by having Robbins shipped off to Absolom, a remote island prison compound monitored by satellite technology where a sort of 'Lord Of The Flies' / 'survival of the fittest' mentality is the law of the land. Robbins is promptly shipped off to a high-tech maximum-security prison run by a faceless pro-profit corporation but almost immediately upon his arrival he starts a brawl and winds up on the wrong side of the warden (Michael Lerner). Robbins (Ray Liotta) who is arrested when his superior officer is killed. O'ConnorĪlso known as Escape From Absolom, Martin Campbell's 1994 sci-fi action thriller No Escape takes place in the dystopian future we're probably all headed for. Cast: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Ernie Hudson, Kevin Dillon, Kevin J.
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