No Exit (2022)

A recovering drug addict played by Havana Rose Liu, travelling to see her dying mother hits a storm and has to stay the night at a visitor centre with 4 others. She finds a young girl in the back of a van tied up and clearly kidnapped - how does she save the girl when she doesn't know who she can trust.

Very exciting, quite brutal and bloody and well acted thriller, especially by Liu and a film to be commended for fitting so much into just 95 minutes. There are plenty of twists and turns, one frankly, I wasn't keen on, all leading to an impressively tense climax. Well worth catching.

Note: This is one of those movies that is filmed in such darkness that it does niggle. I even thought I saw the film flip a couple of times to brighten the picture?

Fmovies: Nothing special here, just a basic mediocre film. Decent time killer but nothing to write home about. I guess if you cant find anything else to watch, give it a shot. 5 stars.

This movie starts off strong with an interesting whodunnit premise centered around our main character who we get just enough backstory to care about. Not a single other character is given but a few minutes of dialogue to flesh them out so you end up not really caring about anyone else or what happens to them. The pacing was all over the place and there's really not enough that happens to justify a 90 minute movie.

Very early on we switch genres from whodunnit mystery to mostly straight up thriller which I found disappointing and kind of boring. The description of this movie is very misleading and I think it will leave a lot of folks disappointed because it does not match the movie I watched. It's worth checking out if you consume a lot of movie media and are looking to watch something you haven't seen, but it's very average.

No Exit fmovies. No Exit has nothing new to see, but it's still entertaining. The scenario of being stranded at a rest stop overnight with a kidnapper is suspenseful. Not knowing at first who the kidnapper is creates a nice element of mystery and let's us play detective for a little while. The story is pretty predictable as it tries to be unpredictable with some twists. It's full of clichés and the stereotypical characters are not extremely interesting but they serve their purpose. Though this horror/thriller contains some blood and violence, it shouldn't be more than the average thriller fan can handle. While nothing feels fresh here, it's not a hard movie to sit through. It's a simple, low budget thriller that moves fast enough to keep us entertained. It holds an obvious low opinion of white people which doesn't do it any favors.

No Exit is a schlocky thriller that too often sinks into lapses of logic.

Darby (Havana Rose Liu) is a recovering addict in a rehab clinic. When Darby receives news that her mother is seriously ill, she breaks out but is forced off the road due to a blizzard.

At a visitors centre where she is forced to stop. Darby stumbles on a bound girl inside a van. She has been kidnapped.

Darby needs to figure which of the four people inside the centre has kidnapped the girl.

This could had been a decent but mindless thriller. Unfortunately some of the twists fail to shock.

The final third of the movie is overblown as it descends into gory violence.

As "No Exit" (2022 release; 95 min.) opens, we are introduced to Darby, a young woman who is in rehab. When Darby learns that her mother has gone to the hospital, Darby makes her escape and steals a car. Alas, there is a blizzard coming and Darby must shelter in a remote visitors center with 4 other stranded people... At this point we are 10 minutes into the movie.

Couple of comments: this is directed by Damien Power (in just his 2nd feature length). Here he brings Taylor Adams' novel of the same name onto the screen. I can't tell for sure, but this has all the feelings of a COVID-19 production: almost the entire movie plays out in a single location (the Visitors Center), and with a small cast. The initial 30 minutes are a bit slow, but then the movie finds a second gear, so to speak, and really kicks in. This movie is super plot-heavy so the less said, the better. All but one of the cast were no-names to me. The only one I recognized was Dennis Haysbert. Bottom line: this isn't going to get any awards nominations, but I quite enjoyed my time with this.

"No Exit" was originally intended to be released in theaters, but resulting from the COVID mess, it got delayed and delayed and then finally pulled from the schedule altogether. It recently started airing on Hulu, where I caught it the other night. If you are in the mood for a scary kidnapping drama/thriller, I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.