No Way Out

The 80's music really dates the flick which I suppose is good or bad depending on whether or not you're into 80's thrillers. The tension is actually very well done as the stakes, and gambles of the protagonist, gradually increase until the point of no return at the climax. In that respect, it's masterful. However the final twist at the end feels utterly shoe-horned in for no other reason that to ensure the audience will go "I didn't see that coming."

Solid 80s thriller. Just pretend that twist in the end never happened.

Diverting but ultimately trivial. Despite an excellent performance from Will Patton, some criminally corny music, slow start, and Kevin Costner eating a bug off a windshield hurt it plenty.

Totally dated with a completely unmotivated twist ending, but still kinda fun.

It was better in the 80's.

Pretty good and well worked out suspense thriller, I enjoyed it. End twist was unnecessary but funny.

A man makes love to a woman in the back of a limousine. She has big hair.In the background a saxophone plays.Yes, it's 1987

Rather than "No Way Out", I'm calling this one "Blame the Other Guy" as the moral of this thriller seems to be no problem is so serious that it can't be resolved by just blaming someone else. And that's a valuable life lesson. From the holocaust to Watergate to Iran-Contra to Bush's presidency and beyond. All tragic events that could have been at least partially avoided if someone just had to the good sense to...blame the other guy. See, it works. I love thrillers with a message.

gene hackman'ın amatör oyuncu, yönetmen ve senaristlere böyle bir destekte bulunması gerçekten takdire şayan. gerilim olarak işlemek için elinden geleni yapıyor, saçma sapan başlayıp saçma sapan bitiyor ve arada da çok çabalayışının meyvesini izlenebilir hale birazcık ulaşarak alıyor. yalnız kevin costner'ın yıldız olduğu bir zamanlar olması bile çok ilginç değil mi ya?

Viewed December 28, 2020. Intriguing, but oddly structured thriller that lays a lot of unnecessary groundwork before it really gets moving. Costner's performance is fun.

Serviceable thriller with a terrible title and score.

Tidy thriller that packs a final twist. The end of the Cold War has reduced its impact quite a bit.

Polit-thriller der ganske interessant og godt opbygget. For en gangs skyld er Costner bare lidt god.

Lots of charming clunky 80s computers scenes: Zoom and enhance... standby for a few hours while enhancing completes... Shouldn't Fred Thompson have gotten involved at the end? The ending is dumb, it's easy to just mentally lop it off because it doesn't resolve anything that came before.

B+

Pretty flawed, with an anticlimactic ending. Considering my enjoyment of the thriller genre, I found it kinda fun though. It’s nice to have Hackman, although the script doesn’t carry its weight very well.

The central idea of the script is pretty ingenious and it plays out interestingly enough. Then, when the story is over, a silly 'twist' happens that robs the movie of its identity for the sake of cleverness.

Not a bad little thriller.

Hasn't aged well. And the title is so misleading...

81.500

If you like Costern this movie might be quite interesting otherwise pick something else...

What the fuck? Where did THAT twist come from?

Has a couple of nice moments, and surprisingly un-Cold Warrior, but ultimately mediocre.

Sean Young and Kevin Costner are both just larger than life in this movie. Costner's cocky "You're pretty impressed with me, aren't you" brought a sly grin on my face. I've been a Costner-fan ever since.

Underneath the eighties big hair, cheesy Jarre score and gratuitous sex is a pretty decent thriller. Hackman once again outclasses everyone around him.

Not bad.

This movie has a good script and the cast works well together. Sean Young does not get to do much in the movie, her role is a thankless one. Overall I would recommend this thriller.

79.500

Story is paced well. Tension builds perfectly and twists mount nicely. Costner was good casting for this. Avoids being cliche and has a cool ending

In the beginning the movie is boring like hell and it really starts in half way there. I almost stopped watching till it turned interesting.

Larry David as the limo driver played exactly the same way. The score is so wrong, it's like watching an Italian horror movie from the 70's.

Really awful first 45 mins,with an annoying Young,very cringy moments between Costner and her and sub-par dialogues and no real chemistry.Once Young is off screen,the movie does settle a bit,but the script is still sad:to gain a modicum of suspense,the available tech is used absurdly inefficiently just to get a ticking time bomb surrogate (fully printing out a very unspecific database query?) At least the last twist somewhat covers why he didn't run out on the girl as soon as she started to talk

Eye rolling plot really. I liked the ending though, which I didn't see it coming even though I had first seen the film in 1987.

I finally understand a Hot Shots reference that I didn't know I needed to understand. So many missteps sink what is actually an effective thriller. The worst offenders are the score, the tech nonsense, the final showdown in Brice's office, and the unnecessary final twist that slaps the rest of the movie in the face. This may have worked in 1987, but it simply doesn't hold up.