We then watch as Cole solves puzzles to save his companions from some Saw style traps. Once the film moves to the escape room the tension ramps up very quickly, you really do feel a strange sense of unease. In fact the scenes where Cole and his girlfriend go and explore Moscow work really well. As formulaic as this is it does actually do a good job at building both the characters and the films own universe. We see a group of twenty some things having the time of their lives, only for it to be interrupted by an event that reveals the first hints of their true selves. It had the elements to be more intense, but unfortunately itвЂ™s a pretty tame affair.The first third of the film will be familiar to even the most sporadic fan of the horror genre. No Escape is another clone in a sea of more memorable attempts with actual tension, horror, and characters who are immensely more likeable and engaging. A shame, as even though you kind of guess it a little earlier, this reveal was surprisingly intense and would have made a good one if it wasnвЂ™t for that telegraph. The twist at the end was interesting, but the writers telegraphed it a few seconds prior to the reveal which instantly doused the effect it would have had if they didnвЂ™t. There was little concentration on the victimвЂ™s reaction to the torture or the bad guyвЂ™s, for that matter. Now I understand some directors, etc want to create a less graphic horror or simply want to save money, but nothing was done to make up for it and amplify the scene in another way to induce tension or horror. If you have people paying you to torture someone, the least you can do is actually show the torture and not stand IN THE WAY of the camera, both ours, and the ones in the world of the film **END SPOLER ALERT**. Usually, graphic vision of the torture or the personвЂ™s face is shown to get across the horror, tension and fear but in No Escape, the events are hidden by the body of the bad guy which is inane in the reality of the filmвЂ™s world because ** SPOLER ALERT** it was done for internet viewers. The вЂњtortureвЂќ scenes are tame and devoid of tension. Once this portion was over, the film delved into a generic вЂњsave my friends from the torturous bad guysвЂќ affair with no real tension or anything to make it passably enjoyable. The puzzles of the escape room were over quickly and werenвЂ™t very exciting like some of the SAW franchiseвЂ™s contraptions. Heck, they have Russians as the bad guys, the ultimate in generic cookie-cutter cliches. They are either douchey or cookie-cutter and reiterates the generic entirety of the film. Unfortunately, the rest of ColeвЂ™s crew arenвЂ™t interesting either. The writers donвЂ™t even give him a moment to show some human emotion and think twice or check for a pulse, nor put him in danger where he has no choice but to cut the cadaver open. This is a guy who gives zero fucks about a body and whether itвЂ™s real, alive, or dead and happily cuts it open to retrieve a puzzle piece. More interested in his viewers than his real-life relationships, we are forced to endure the whole runtime focusing on Cole and his inability to realize fact from fiction.

The writers gave him no redeeming qualities to balance out his douchiness. An internet вЂњcelebrityвЂќ, who does EXTREME things (you must always type EXTREME in all capsвЂ¦) for his YouTube channel, I was instantly turned off this guy from the get go.

IвЂ™m sure the younger generations may find it otherwise, but Shiva, I loathed Cole (Keegan Allen), the main character of No Escape. Unfortunately, No Escape, or Follow Me as itвЂ™s also known, is devoid of such characters, with the main protagonist being so whole heartedly douche-baggy, you are yearning for him to die within the first 5 minutes. Without a likeable protagonist, a film is simply a voyeuristic affair with no emotional investment from the viewer and becomes a soleless exercise in runtime. Likeable to them, so they can root for and want the character to succeed. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger.ДЄ story needs to have characters that are relatable to the viewer. A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG.

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