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((short description|1994 film by Martin Campbell))
((More citations needed|date=May 2017))
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((Infobox film
| name           = No Escape
| image          = No escape poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Martin Campbell]]
| producer       = [[Jake Eberts]]<br />[[Gale Anne Hurd]]
| screenplay     = Michael Gaylin<br />Joel Gross
| based_on       = ((Based on|''The Penal Colony''|Richard Herley))
| starring       = ((Plainlist|
* [[Ray Liotta]]
* [[Lance Henriksen]]
* [[Stuart Wilson (actor)|Stuart Wilson]]
* [[Kevin Dillon]]
* [[Kevin J. O'Connor (actor)|Kevin J. O'Connor]]
* [[Michael Lerner (actor)|Michael Lerner]]
* [[Ernie Hudson]]))
| music          = [[Graeme Revell]]
| cinematography = [[Phil Meheux]]
| editing        = [[Terry Rawlings]]
| studio         = Pacific Western<ref name=afi>((cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/60412-NO-ESCAPE|title=No Escape (1994)|work=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]|accessdate=October 16, 2022))</ref>
| distributor    = ((Plain list|
* [[Savoy Pictures]] (North America)<ref name=bfi>((cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c7512d3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503151935/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c7512d3|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 3, 2019|title=No Escape (1994)|work=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=June 4, 2019))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/30/business/savoy-pictures-high-and-low-roads.html|title=Savoy Pictures' High and Low Roads|last=Fabrikant|first=Geraldine|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 30, 1995|access-date=June 4, 2019))</ref> 
* [[Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International]] (International)<ref>((cite web|url=https://variety.com/1997/scene/vpage/sony-folds-low-budget-outfit-triumph-films-1117433472|title=Sony Pictures Entertainment folds low-budget outfit Triumph Films|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last=Cox|first=Dan|date=April 11, 1997|access-date=August 22, 2019))</ref>
))
| released       = ((Film date|1994|04|29))
| runtime        = 111 minutes<ref name=afi/>
| country        = United States<ref name=bfi/>
| language       = English
| budget         = $20 million<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/the-best-movie-you-never-saw-no-escape-1994-234|title=The Best Movie You Never Saw: ''No Escape'' (1994)|work=[[JoBlo.com]]|last=Bumbray|first=Chris|date=July 28, 2017|access-date=December 12, 2020))</ref>
| gross          = $22.4 million<ref name=worldwide>((cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 13, 1995|page=28|title=Worldwide rentals beat domestic take))</ref>
))
'''''No Escape''''', released in some countries as '''''Escape from Absolom''''' and '''''Absolom 2022''''', is a 1994 American [[science fiction action film]]<ref name=afi/> directed by [[Martin Campbell]]. It stars [[Ray Liotta]], [[Lance Henriksen]], [[Stuart Wilson (actor)|Stuart Wilson]], [[Kevin Dillon]], [[Michael Lerner (actor)|Michael Lerner]] and [[Ernie Hudson]]. It was based on the 1987 novel ''The Penal Colony'' by Richard Herley. In a [[dystopian fiction|dystopian future]], a former [[United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions|Reconnaissance Marine]] serves [[life imprisonment]] on an island inhabited by savage and cannibalistic prisoners.

It was the first film collaboration between the director Martin Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, who both later worked in ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]'' and ''[[Vertical Limit]]'', released in 1998 and 2000, and the film was also the third collaboration between the producer [[Gale Anne Hurd|Hurd]] and Henriksen, after ''[[The Terminator]]'' and ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'', both directed by [[James Cameron]], and released in 1984 and 1986.

== Plot ==
In 2022, the [[Private prison|penal system is run by corporations]], and prisoners are seen as assets. Highly-trained ex-Marine John Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer after being ordered to kill innocent civilians in [[Benghazi]]; having escaped from two Level 5 maximum security prisons, he is sent to a Level 6 facility. A fellow prisoner tells him about "Absolom", an island where they send the worst prisoners and is feared more than the prison. The Warden, after being held at gunpoint by Robbins, is convinced that he is a threat and exiles him to the island.

On the island, Robbins is captured by a group of prisoners known as the Outsiders, led by a sociopath named Walter Marek and whose only rule is [[The Law of the Jungle]]. The abandoned island resort, complete with dilapidated houses and a swimming pool, is where the Outsiders have established a base. Marek forces Robbins to fight one of his men for amusement and is impressed when Robbins kills his opponent in seconds. He offers him a position in his gang; instead, Robbins knocks Marek into the pool, steals his rocket launcher, and flees the Outsiders' camp. He is pursued through the jungle and cornered at the edge of a high cliff before being shot in the neck by blowgun darts. After falling into the river below, another prisoner group called the Insiders retrieves him.

Led by a terminally-ill doctor called the Father, the Insiders established a cooperative autonomous community with laws as opposed to the tyranny of the Outsiders. Robbins meets Father; King, the new-arrival helper; and befriends Casey, a naïve young man given a life sentence for a kidnapping which led to a dual [[felony murder]] accidentally when the hostages died. Robbins learns that the Insiders are heavily outnumbered by the Outsiders and that he is the only person to have ever escaped from Marek's camp. The weapon he stole is appropriated for the good of the community.

After helping repel an attack by the Outsiders, Father notes Robbins' abilities and asks him to join them. He refuses, saying he wants to leave Absolom; Father takes Robbins to the shore, explaining that they are 200 miles (321.9 km) from the mainland. Gunships patrol 50 miles (80.5 km) off the coast, and infrared satellite technology monitors thermal activity, such as large fires or explosions.

The Insiders have secretly built a scan-proof boat and launch it to tell the outside world about Absolom. However, the boat is destroyed by attack helicopters, causing Father to believe there is an informer among them.

Robbins learns about a new boat and demands a seat, still determined to escape. After learning that the engine needs a [[distributor]], a part Robbins saw while in Marek's camp, he offers to retrieve it in exchange for passage; the Insiders agree. Casey follows Robbins, who infiltrates the Outsiders' camp and gets the engine part, but they are captured by the Outsiders. Robbins is forced to fight Casey to the death. Knowing they won't both escape, Casey impales himself on Robbins' weapon. Robbins escapes a planned execution with the help of an Insider spy, infuriating Marek.

Knowing Marek will attack, and over stern objections, Robbins convinces the Insiders to abandon their camp, but not before lacing it with booby traps. The Father attempts to convince Robbins to be the leader of the group when he dies, as he secretly has been suffering from progressive [[Hodgkin lymphoma]] that he estimates could kill him in a month without any sort of proper treatment. He tries to recruit Robbins to take his place as leader, but he asserts his need to escape the island before coming to accept that that the need to assert the truth of what really happened to lead to his imprisonment and the truth about the island are equally important. Robbins stays behind to fire the stolen rocket launcher, igniting an incendiary bomb. Most of the Outsiders die, and the Warden intervenes when the satellites are triggered. Father dies while defending Robbins from Marek. After Robbins kills Marek, he finds the new boat incinerated and evidence that King, promised freedom by the Warden, has killed the engineer. Robbins forces King to give new coordinates to the Warden for where to land his helicopter on the island. Robbins tells Hawkins that The Father told him that Hawkins should be the new leader before enacting a plan with the helicopter. With a group of fellow Insiders, Robbins hijacks the helicopter, throws the Warden out, and vows to spread the truth. King and the Warden are left behind as unseen Outsiders close in on them.

== Cast ==
((div col|colwidth=18em))
* [[Ray Liotta]] as JT Robbins
* [[Lance Henriksen]] as The Father
* [[Stuart Wilson (actor)|Stuart Wilson]] as Walter Marek
* [[Kevin Dillon]] as Casey
* [[Kevin J. O'Connor (actor)|Kevin J. O'Connor]] as Stephano
* [[Don Henderson]] as Killian
* [[Ian McNeice]] as Tom King
* [[Jack Shepherd (actor)|Jack Shepherd]] as Dysart
* [[Michael Lerner (actor)|Michael Lerner]] as Warden
* [[Ernie Hudson]] as Hawkins
* [[Russell Kiefel]] as Iceman
* Brian M. Logan as Scab
* Cheuk-Fai Chan as Skull
* [[David Wenham]] as Hotel Guard
* [[David Argue]] as the Cellmate
* Stan Kouros as NCO
((div col end))

==Production==
The film was originally developed under the working title ''Prison Colony''.<ref name="NoEscapeProd"> ((cite magazine |last1=|first1=|date=Spring 1994|title= Sinister Sentinel|url= https://archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Imagi-Movies%20Vol%201%20No%203%20%28Spring%201994%29/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater|magazine=Imagi-Movies |location= |publisher= Fourth Castle Micromedia|access-date=February 26, 2023)) </ref> While major studios had shown interest in the project, they also insisted there be at least some female representation in the film.<ref name= "NoEscapeProd"/> Producers [[Jake Eberts]] and [[Gale Anne Hurd]] opted to do the film independently and set up the production at [[Savoy Pictures]].<ref name= "NoEscapeProd"/>

== Reception ==
''No Escape'' holds a rating of 57% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 21 reviews; the average rating is 5.3/10.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_escape|title=No Escape|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=2023-05-10))</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, giving praise to the technical ambitions of the filmmakers in sets and costume while calling it a film where "little thought has been given to the personalities of the characters."<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-escape-1994 | title=No Escape movie review & film summary (1994) &#124; Roger Ebert ))</ref>

The film grossed $15.3 million in the United States and Canada and $22.4 million worldwide.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=noescape.htm|title=No Escape|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=June 4, 2019))</ref><ref name=worldwide/>

== Merchandise ==
((main article|No Escape (video game)))

A video game [[No Escape (video game)|of the same name]] based on the film was released in 1994 for [[Sega Genesis]] & [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/no-escape/platform/snes/|title=No Escape|date=September 27, 2000 |publisher=GameSpot|access-date=2012-03-31))</ref> A [[Sega CD]] version was planned and even advertised, but was cancelled for unknown reasons.<ref>((cite web|url=https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:MeanMachinesSega23UK.pdf&page=13|title=No Escape|publisher=Sega Retro|access-date=2015-08-04))</ref> [[Marvel Comics]] published a three-issue comic book miniseries that adapted the original novel and the film's script, the series had Roger Salick as a writer, [[Mike Harris (comics)]] as penciler, and Chris Ivy as  inker.

==Home media==
''No Escape'' was released on VHS and [[Laserdisc]] in 1994, the [[VHS]] was re-released on April 14, 1998. The [[DVD]] was released by [[HBO]] on July 29, 1998. [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar]] also released the film on DVD, VHS and Laserdisc in other countries from 1995–2003, while Sony Pictures Home Entertainment re-released the DVDs in 2005–2017. The DVD was released in United Kingdom on October 3, 2003 by [[Pathé]]. The film was first released on Blu-ray in Germany by Nameless Media (under the label of SPHE) in 2017, and includes with [[mediabook]] covers. On July 4, 2018, the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by [[Umbrella Entertainment]] in Australia, and includes four TV Spots and Trailer.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Escape-from-Absolom-Blu-ray/203861/|title=Escape from Absolom (AKA No Escape) on Blu-ray|work=Blu-ray.com|date=2018-07-04|access-date=2019-08-22))</ref> Unearthed Films released the film on Blu-ray with Special Features for the North American releases in October 2022.

== See also ==
* [[List of films featuring surveillance]]
* [[List of prison films]]
* [[Private prison]]
* [[Prison-industrial complex]]

== References ==
((Reflist))

== External links ==
* ((IMDb title|0110678))
* ((Rotten Tomatoes|no_escape))
* ((Mojo title|noescape))
* [http://www.timeout.com/film/63473.html Review by Time Out]

((Martin Campbell))

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