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The Escapist
Directed by
Rupert Wyatt
Not Rated
2008
1h 42m
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6.7
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Frank is 14 years into a life sentence when he decides to break out of the London prison to set things right with his ill junkie daughter. He plans an ingenious escape requiring 4 inmates with different skills.
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Cast of The Escapist
Brian Cox
Frank Perry
Damian Lewis
Rizza
Joseph Fiennes
Lenny Drake
Seu Jorge
Viv Batista
Liam Cunningham
Brodie
Dominic Cooper
Lacey
Stephen Farrelly
Two Ton
Steven Mackintosh
Tony
Ned Dennehy
Jumpy Con
Paul Vaughan
Prison Tannoy Voice (voice)
Jack Walsh
Sikes
Rupert Wyatt
Director / Writer
Daniel Hardy
Writer
Adrian Sturges
Producer
Alan Moloney
Producer
The Escapist Ratings & Reviews
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Every scene is tightly bound to the next by concealed visual nods and restrained dialogue, which, coupled with the film's naturalism, makes for raw, satisfying suspense.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
The Escapist is not an easy movie to watch.
HitFix
Drew McWeeny
By keeping the focus on the humanity, Rupert Wyatt makes a strong debut as a writer/director here, and his film's got a great sense of low-budget style.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
The splintered viewpoints help with the monotony, but from the taunting of new inmates to the cell-block sadist, we've gone through all this before, right down to the final twists.
Christianity Today
Josh Hurst
It's simply an experiment in throwing a familiar premise into a blender and seeing how it looks once it's all chopped up.
Boxoffice Magazine
Pete Hammond
A customarily fine performance by Brian Cox and a well-oiled supporting cast are not enough to lift this brutal and listless prison melodrama out of the ranks of '40s B movie.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Shapes a standard prison-break drama into a metaphysical study of freedom and reparation.
MSNBC
Alonso Duralde
Director Rupert Wyatt and his co-writer Daniel Hardy have neatly trimmed the fat from this story -- there's almost no character, incident or visual cue that doesn't somehow enhance the plot or set up a surprise or key revelation later on.
Observer
Rex Reed
The prison escape movie -- a tired genre -- gets some fresh energy in The Escapist, a compelling, carefully written and totally gripping film from the U.K. that is acted with naturalism and conviction by a smashing cast.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Neither more nor less than a solid prison-break thriller.
Village Voice
Jean Oppenheimer
A taut thriller that ends on a note of unexpected grace, the British prison drama The Escapist marks the impressive feature debut for director/co-writer Rupert Wyatt.
Hollywood & Fine
Marshall Fine
Taut, full of soul but with no sentimentality ... the tension is ingrained in the story and the performance by Brian Cox.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Director/co-writer Rupert Wyatt deconstructs the typical prison escape story form to dramatically successful effect with the help of a strong ensemble cast.
Cinematical
James Rocchi
The Escapist wrings jagged tension out of a fractured timeline.
Film Threat
Mark Bell
The Escapist is a film worth seeking out, for both its fresh re-invention of the prison film genre and the absolute clinic on acting put on by Brian Cox and the rest of the actors in the film (not a weak link among them).
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
Those looking for an innovative new take on the prison genre should be pleased with the latest from this talented filmmaker.
Variety
Robert Koehler
[Star Brian] Cox calmly registers ranges of steely determination, fatherly care and regret-filled sadness with great authority.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
All of this mayhem keeps us watching, but it would be hard to describe the experience as pleasurable.
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