Review of No Escape (2015) by Dennis L — 11 Sep 2015

This is pretty much World War Z with Asians. Owen Wilson lacks Brad Pitt's military training but, being a logistics? engineer, he thinks on his feet in a really quick way. Macgyver would be proud. His children, in true post-Jurassic World fashion, are liabilities and have no special powers whatsoever, except they look cute and, occasionally, are looked kindly upon by the local population.

This movie's a slender thing but offers the deeply ignorant a parallel world in which to get a handle on just some of the issues refugees face. If you needed, say, a white character played by Ewan Macgregor through which to appreciate that the Indian Ocean tsunami was terrible (The Impossible, 2012), then this will be a great movie for you, if you want to be shown how running away from military coups - specifically ones with ethnic cleansing on their agenda - can be terrible also.