No Escape

The film's torture garden will drum up some moderate suspense for anyone who misses movies like Hostel.

There aren’t a lot of new ideas in No Escape — it’s best described as Saw meets Hostel for the Instagram generation... That doesn’t mean that it’s not entertaining or has nothing to say, though.

Watchable, enjoyable, but also - it must be said - a little forgettable.

There's some bloody fun to be had in trying to sort out exactly what's going on.

A "gotcha" twist ending does bring some fun to the table, though it can't hide No Escape's trite, bargain bin execution

Features a lot of torture porn in the mold of 'Saw' and 'Hostel,' which hardly constitutes a virtue: that stuff was repulsive at its first appearance, and now has become passé as well.

A vague copycat of the successful 'Saw' franchise formula, this horror/thriller lacks interesting puzzles, likable characters, and memorable shocks and has an unsettling level of violence toward women.

Obnoxious millennials obsessed with social media while lacking common sense might deserve some comeuppance, but there's not much intrigue in this derivative horror exercise as generic as its title.

It has the hunched and gasping air of an old-school torture-porn movie. But there's no torture! Or rather, there is torture, but you mostly don't see it. It's torture lite.

There is a perfectly reasonable way to escape this time-waster, and that's just not to watch it.