No Escape (1994) on Netflix
In 2022, ex-Marine J.T. Robbins is convicted of murdering a commanding officer and exiled to Absolom, an island where convicts are abandoned. There he is captured by Walter Marek's Outsiders.
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Plot summary
In 2022, private corporations run the world's prison systems, and prisoners count as assets. J.T. Robbins, a former Marine, is serving life for killing a commanding officer who ordered him to kill civilians in Benghazi. After he holds the Warden at gunpoint, the Warden sends him to Absolom, a Level 6 island where the worst convicts are dumped to survive or die. Walter Marek leads the Outsiders, convicts who live by the law of the jungle in an abandoned resort. The Insiders, a community inside a fortified compound, live by laws under a man called the Father. Robbins, who wants only to leave the island, refuses their invitation to join and is shown a shore patrolled by gunships.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Escape (1994)
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- Major studios showed interest but insisted on at least some female representation in the film; producers Jake Eberts and Gale Anne Hurd chose instead to make it independently and set the production up at Savoy Pictures.
- The film spun off a 1994 video game for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, and a three-issue Marvel Comics miniseries that adapted both the original novel and the film's script.
- It was the first film collaboration between director Martin Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, who worked together again on The Mask of Zorro and Vertical Limit, and the third between producer Gale Anne Hurd and Henriksen, after The Terminator and Aliens.
