By Chris Luckett
For the first day since the opening night,
only one film was screened tonight: the Canadian thriller Inescapable.
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This was a special screening of the movie,
before it opens nationwide across Canada and possibly the U.S. It would be nice
to be able to say nice things about the movie, since Canada doesn’t produce the
quantity of films other countries do – but Inescapable
is just too mediocre to recommend.
Much like another recent movie, Inescapable involves an ex-government
agent/father whose daughter is kidnapped in a foreign country, so he must go
there and track her down in a one-man brigade. (Just replace France with
Syria.) Whether it’s the larger quantity of conversation and pontificating or
the lack of a budget for many action scenes, Inescapable does occasionally feel like a Canadian Taken. Unfortunately, more often than
not, it more feels like a Canadian Not
Without My Daughter.
Admirable work from the three leads
(Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, and Marisa Tomei) keeps the movie afloat for
the film’s duration, but the writing is downright sloppy. Characters suddenly
have knowledge they didn’t have in the scene prior, characters disappear and
are nonchalantly mentioned as dead in the next; it felt like the editor had
excised entire scenes that were fundamental to the plot, leaving gaping plot
holes and mind-blowing continuity errors.
If there’s a reason to see Inescapable, it’s the acting, especially
from Siddig as the father forced to face his Syrian past in order to retrieve
his daughter. Beyond that, it’s simply adequate.
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