Inescapable (Blu-ray) R
You can never escape your past
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 2, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei & Joshua Jackson | |
Performer: | Jay Anstey & Oded Fehr | |
Directed by | Ruba Nadda | |
Screenwriting by | Ruba Nadda | |
Composition by | Geo Hoehn | |
Director of Photography: | Luc Montpellier |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
The plot unfolds at a nice clip, but at no point does director Ruba Nadda evade expectations.
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New York Post
Rating: 2/5 --
A Canadian nonthriller that plays like a heavily sedated hybrid of "Taken" and "Not Without My Daughter" ...
New York Times
Clearly meaning Inescapable as an act of love, Ms. Nada, a Canadian filmmaker with Syrian/Palestinian parents, has instead done a great disservice to her gene pool and our film-loving sensibilities. Irksome would be a more appropriate title.
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CultureCatch
Rating: 2/5 --
One hopes "Inescapable" is only a momentary stumble for this promising filmmaker.
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Los Angeles Times
"Inescapable" offers a respectful treatment of its Arab characters' struggles, set at a central position rare in North American cinema, but it waters itself down in its effort to make them palatable to a non-Arab audience.
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Gay City News
The film tries to meld politically charged personal drama with the action-movie tropes you'd expect in a story set in the Middle East. (Chase through a crowded marketplace? Brawl at the hamam? Check!)
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TheWrap
Rating: 1/5 --
Muddled and inert despite the best intentions, this inescapably dull thriller plays like a Middle Eastern take on Liam Neeson's "Taken."
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
A Syrian expatriate in Canada learns that his daughter has gone missing in Damascus, and returns to his home country for the first time in 20 years to find her in this thriller from writer/director Ruba Nadda (CAIRO TIME, SABAH). January, 2011: As the Tunisian government crumbles, protestors fill the streets of Cairo. Meanwhile, in Canada, successful Syrian emigrant Adib Abdul-Kareem (Alexander Siddig) receives word that his daughter Muna has vanished while traveling through Damascus. Left with no choice but to return to Syria and follow every lead he has, Abdul-Kareem enlists the aid of Fatima (Marisa Tomei), his long-lost love, and a Canadian embassy official (Joshua Jackson) in locating Muna at all costs. But by the time Abdul-Kareem realizes that the official may be acting on his own agenda, it may already be too late for both the desperate father, and the daughter who disappeared without a trace.