'No Escape No Return' is the type of cornball action flick that only lovers of bad movies or people that stay up past midnight watching tv should take a chance on. It's also not one of PM Entertainment's finest efforts into the crowded 90's dtv market. In an odd bit of foreshadowing, I saw a bunch of trailers for films from this company attached to their 'Bikini Summer 2'. The one for this flick looked the least promising and turned out to be right on the money.
Three no holds barred cops - Sloan (Maxwell Caulfield), Cuff (Dustin Nguyen) and Weston (Denise Loveday) - all grew up together as kids and joined the force. Off cracking in heads on their own they are brought together "since they can't keep a partner" by Det. Dante (Michael Nouri) from the DEA who's on the payroll of a drug baron who wants revenge for his dead brother. Can this trio survive multiple attempts, setups on their lives? Are they deep, conflicted people with real problems? Did Sloan just do some lines of coke? Did Cuff really have to beat the brakes off that guy standing in line waiting to get into a club?
I had a really hard time with this flick because when it's not looking like low budget crap, acting stupid for one reason or another - it's just boring. Cliche after cliche, one note villains (including Nouri) and an unsatisfying end which I won't ask questions of lest it hurts my brain even more. 'No Escape No Return' is a dog of an action film and I say that as someone who doesn't have high standards if it means being entertained.
Three no holds barred cops - Sloan (Maxwell Caulfield), Cuff (Dustin Nguyen) and Weston (Denise Loveday) - all grew up together as kids and joined the force. Off cracking in heads on their own they are brought together "since they can't keep a partner" by Det. Dante (Michael Nouri) from the DEA who's on the payroll of a drug baron who wants revenge for his dead brother. Can this trio survive multiple attempts, setups on their lives? Are they deep, conflicted people with real problems? Did Sloan just do some lines of coke? Did Cuff really have to beat the brakes off that guy standing in line waiting to get into a club?
I had a really hard time with this flick because when it's not looking like low budget crap, acting stupid for one reason or another - it's just boring. Cliche after cliche, one note villains (including Nouri) and an unsatisfying end which I won't ask questions of lest it hurts my brain even more. 'No Escape No Return' is a dog of an action film and I say that as someone who doesn't have high standards if it means being entertained.