VERDICT: You might have no nails left to bite off by the end of this movie.

   How does it feel to watch a nightmare unfold before your eyes, slowly and brutally? No Escape is a thriller that will take you on that uncomfortable ride you crave for at the movies. No fluff, no pretences; No Escape gives you a moment to think of the worst of a situation for anybody to be in and almost always, in the very next moment, fulfills what you wished wouldn’t happen.

   Owen Wilson and Lake Bell play Jack and Annie Dwyer, a couple who move to a South-Asian country with their daughters, Lucy (Sterling Jerins) and Breeze (Claire Geare). Jack, after troubled times has a new job and a life to look forward to. Luck frowns upon the Dwyers from almost the time they land and get out of the airport. They get no ride to their hotel and then finding a cabbie who idolises Kenny Rogers and even calls himself so (you want to take your chances with no cabbie....

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