No Escape (1994 film)
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| Directed by | Martin Campbell |
| Produced by |
Jake Eberts Gale Anne Hurd |
| Screenplay by |
Michael Gaylin Joel Gross |
| Based on |
The Penal Colony by Richard Herley |
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| Music by |
Graeme Revell Tim Simonec |
| Cinematography | Phil Meheux |
| Edited by | Terry Rawlings |
| Distributed by |
Home Box Office (USA, video) Savoy Pictures |
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Running time
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $15.3 million |
No Escape, released in some countries as Escape from Absolom, is a 1994 American action/science fiction film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon and Ernie Hudson. It was based on the 1987 novel The Penal Colony, by Richard Herley.
The story, set in a dystopian future, concerns a former Marine who is serving life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannibalistic prisoners. It was shot in Queensland, Australia.
In the year 2022, the penal system is run entirely by corporations, with prisoners seen as assets. Highly trained ex-marine John Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer, who in 2011 ordered him to kill scores of innocent men, women and children in Benghazi (Libya). The event haunts Robbins over a decade later.
Robbins had escaped from two Level 5 maximum security prisons and is now incarcerated in a Level 6 facility. A fellow prisoner tells him about "Absolom", an island where they send the worst prisoners—a place feared more than the prison. The warden, after he is held at gunpoint by Robbins, is convinced that Robbins is a threat and exiles him to the island.
Once on the island, Robbins is captured by a numerous group of prisoners known as the 'Outsiders', whose only order is The Law of the Jungle and are led by a sociopath named Marek. The island —previously a private retreat with dilapidated houses and a swimming pool— is where the Outsiders have established a base. Marek insists that Robbins fight one of his men for his amusement. Marek is impressed when Robbins kills his opponent in seconds, and offers him a position in his gang. Robbins instead knocks Marek into a pool, steals his rocket launcher, and flees from the Outsider's camp. Pursued through the jungle, he ends up trapped at the edge of a high cliff where he is shot in the neck by blowgun darts. He falls into the river below, where he washes up on some rocks and is retrieved by another group, called the 'Insiders'.
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