No Escape can’t break free

Ray Liotta firmly established as new anti-hero

Tim Bell .. FILM REVIEW

No Escape tr (Savoy Pictures)’

Rated R (at the Park & Tilford, Granville, Coquitlam, Scott 72, Station ‘Square, Clearbrook, Willowbrook and Hams Road Cinemas).

“IRED OF the same old routine? Want to get, _ away from it all? Then - we offer you — ESCAPE.

The year is 2022 and prisons are now privatized.

“You are human garbage and this is a recycling station,” the » jailer advises the new inmates. It’s big business and_.if the boys don’t play’ nice,.the nasty warden

+ (Michael Lerner) simply takes out _ ~.the trash. The Smithrite;.in this ©

instance, is.a remote island for the hardcore rebels:

-The extremely defiant Capt. aia

~' -T, Robbins (Ray Liotta, a ringer for. Tony Curtis in the fifties) finds “himself in-this secret penal “colony that has ‘divided itself into two camps. ’ . © ‘The leader-of the barbarie - Outsiders,-Walter Marek (Stuart Wilson) is:always looking for a lethal sidekick and -Robbins ‘seems particularly efficient as a -ruthless killing: machine. But

*- Robbins suffers from the old. » Groucho Marx joke, “I could:

‘- never. belong to a:club that ‘would have someone ‘like me for a member.”:

» And it's: no better when the ex: captain is rescued by the Mather” of the Nice Guy society

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(MICHAEL LERNER and Ray Liotta star In No Esca e, & futuris- tle action adventure set In the year 2022 in a privatized prison.

(Lance Henriksen, cast against type for once). The only thing Robbins wants is to escape.

Ray Liotta firmly establishes himself.as the new anti-hero, a

‘Steve McQueen for the nineties.

Haunted blue eyes that turn ice- cold when he snaps a neck or

‘two (in self defense, of course) also spill tears over a past -

tragedy.

Even with young Blue-eyes, No Escape can’t escape being routine.

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If it’s real escape you’re crav- ing, the world’s. most popular ‘travel guidebook comes to video. Along with the hour highlighting the scenic splendors of Spain,

Britain, Germany, among other .-

vacation spots, there are useful tips to make your trip more relax-

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a practical handbook that expands the points covered on tape and offers plenty of dining locations, lodgings and general price ranges.

Louse Connections HH (Pacific Arts Video) Rated Mature

This little British film wouldn't catch anyone’s attention if not for two things. First, it stars Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Angie) 10 years before his rumpled face achieved its current hang-dog

State.

And second, there’s the plot. When Harry (Rea) meets Sally (Lindsay Duncan), they agree to share the driving from Liverpool to Germany, but that’s about all they can agree on. Hmmm, ring a bell? (... think Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan). Trouble is, this film isn’t nearly up to that popular hit.

Although it’s nicely acted, this

is one time when Hollywood:

actually improved on a British film. Loose Connections just doesn’t create many sparks.

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