![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the rest of Cole’s crew aren’t interesting either. The writers don’t even give him a moment to show some human emotion and think twice or check for a pulse, nor put him in danger where he has no choice but to cut the cadaver open. This is a guy who gives zero fucks about a body and whether it’s real, alive, or dead and happily cuts it open to retrieve a puzzle piece. More interested in his viewers than his real-life relationships, we are forced to endure the whole runtime focusing on Cole and his inability to realize fact from fiction. The writers gave him no redeeming qualities to balance out his douchiness. An internet “celebrity”, who does EXTREME things (you must always type EXTREME in all caps…) for his YouTube channel, I was instantly turned off this guy from the get go. I’m sure the younger generations may find it otherwise, but Shiva, I loathed Cole (Keegan Allen), the main character of No Escape. Unfortunately, No Escape, or Follow Me as it’s also known, is devoid of such characters, with the main protagonist being so whole heartedly douche-baggy, you are yearning for him to die within the first 5 minutes. Without a likeable protagonist, a film is simply a voyeuristic affair with no emotional investment from the viewer and becomes a soleless exercise in runtime. ![]() Likeable to them, so they can root for and want the character to succeed. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger.Ī story needs to have characters that are relatable to the viewer. Vertical Entertainment will release the horror/thriller NO ESCAPE on Digital and On Demand on September 18, 2020.A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Still, I won’t deny that it has entertainment value and will satisfy the horror needs of many, so do check it out! This is a horror-thriller and so I can excuse some things, but I felt like I was expected to accept too many unbelievable plot points. The only thing that didn’t work so well was making it believable. ![]() Also, the social media element worked well for me. I like the escape room scenes and enjoyed the friendships portrayed. While I’m not overly impressed by No Escape, I did enjoy watching this movie. You might like: Our review of Will Wernick’s Escape Room from 2017 here > And while I did enjoy Will Wernick’s Escape Room, Adam Robitel’s movie was the bigger hit and will have a sequel. In 2017, he released Escape Room only to see Adam Robitel release a movie with the same title in 2019. It almost seems like a trademark of Will Wernick to have movie titles used by others. And it was surprisingly good, so do check that out! It starred Lake Bell, Owen Wilson, and Pierce Brosnan. Just five years ago, in 2015, an action-thriller with the same title was released. Will Wernick is the writer and director of No Escape (2020) and yes, I do have to note the “2020” part since more movies have this title. ![]() And Emilia Ares ( The Dark Tapes, American Horror Story) is his girlfriend. Ronen Rubinstein from 9-1-1: Lone Star plays an extremely wealthy Russian who plans the crazy Escape Room experience for Cole (Keegan Allen) and his friends. Rounding out the group of friends are George Janko ( NCIS: Los Angeles), and Siya ( The First Purge). In fact, I loved that he wasn’t just some douchy social media star (that trope is already tired) but rather was very positive and happy.Īs his girlfriend, we see Holland Roden of Teen Wolf and Channel Zero with Denzel Whitaker from The Purge series as his childhood best friend. He has a quirkiness to him that I’ve always liked and he really brings a lot of heart to this character. Heading the cast is Keegan Allen from Pretty Little Liars. No Escape does have a very impressive TV series ensemble cast and all the actors are really good. Many of my all-time favorite actors are in (or have been in) TV series. We are in a golden age of television and TV series in general. To be clear, I do not see TV series actors as somehow inferior. ![]()
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