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No Way Out

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Remake of:

The Big Clock

Original title

No Way Out

Year

1987

Running time

116 min.

Country

United States

Director

Roger Donaldson

Screenwriter

Robert Garland. Novel: Kenneth Fearing

Cast

Music

Maurice Jarre

Cinematography

John Alcott, Alun Bollinger

Producer

Orion Pictures

Genre

Thriller. Mystery | Crime. Army. Neo-noir. Psychological Thriller. Remake

Synopsis

Thriller in which a naval commander begins dating an alluring woman who happens to be the girlfriend of his boss (the Secretary of Defense). When the woman is murdered, the Secretary assigns the task of tracking down the killer to the military officer -- who promptly becomes the main suspect.

Rankings Position

#135 Best Remakes in the history of film

Critics' reviews

"It respects the audience's intelligence, gives us a great deal of information, trusts us to put it together and makes the intellectual analysis of the situation one of the movie's great pleasures (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A film that is better than it has to be and not as good as it ought to be, but there is skill here, as well as an admirable willingness to try something new."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"It's so effective, in fact, that when it's all over, you might want to sit through the beginning again just to see if the end is justified by the means"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"No Way Out's greatest prize is Costner, a leading man at last: fiercely good, intelligent, appreciatively sensual in a performance balanced perfectly between action and introspection."

Sheila Benson: Los Angeles Times
"A juicy thriller-romance bursting out of the Pentagon's arid corridors"

Carrie Rickey: Philadelphia Inquirer
"The film makes such good use of Washington and builds suspense so well that it transcends a plot bordering on ridiculous."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post

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