No Way Out (1987)

AWESOME SUSPENSE FILM

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH REST OF VIEWERS,KEVIN COSTNERS BEST MOVIE,HES BRILLIANT.ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE CAST HELPED MAKE THIS MOVIE A 5 STARRER.BY ROSE November 25, 2008

internal affair

I loved this movie years ago. NO WAY OUT is outlandish Hollywood fantasy that is not pretending, I don't think, to be anything other than entertaining escapism. If viewed as anything more serious, deduct 1 star from my rating. I glimpsed the blurbs included in the product description above and would agree NO WAY OUT is mesmerizing, but if you want a serious look at Washington power, the Pentagon, the CIA, etc., then check out fantastic documentaries like UNCOVERED TRUTH, THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, etc., etc., here on Amazon. Getting your ideas about power from a Kevin Costner movie is stupid. In anycase, NO WAY OUT is an enjoyable "nailbiter". Very "taut" and "stylish" Hollywood filmmaking. Too bad about Sean Young. What the?? I'm going to look her up on wikipedia in a second. Back in the 80s... she was drop dead gorgeous. Hah, I made a joke. November 25, 2008

Nail biting stuff!!

Even though this movie is getting on in years, I watched it for the first time recently and found it to be a thoroughly entertaining, suspenseful movie. One sits there hoping there WILL be a way out... November 2, 2008

Nice slight of hand

For a twenty years old movie , No Way Out holds up very well. (From automobiles to clothing, it's easy to forget it is not a current release.) Like The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series), the ending is a shocker and the build up exceptionally well crafted. If you've never seen the movie, you're in for a treat. If you have seen it and know the ending, it's still interesting to watch how the film makers lead the viewer along a apparently obvious path until the very end. Both films cleverly use movie clichés standardized characters to seduce the audience.

The Shut Mouth Society
The Shopkeeper
October 29, 2008

No Way. Out.

It is 1987, mid way through Ronald Reagan's second term. 1987 is the year of the Iran Contra scandal and a big stock market crash. The Cold War with the Soviet Union is still being waged, but soon it will come to an end. George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle will be our next president and vice president. Naval hero Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is summoned to the pentagon by Secretary of Defense, David Brice (Gene Hackman). At a posh political function the dashing commander hits on a glamorous woman and is shot down. But he makes a brash exit, claiming she is interested, and she follows him to the bar. As they get to know each other, they exchange these tender words:

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Susan Atwell: Are you one of them?
Tom Farrell: One of what?
Susan Atwell: These hypocrites. All posh and shiny getting ready for four more years of ******* it to the rest of us.
Tom Farrell: You're pretty cynical.
Susan Atwell: Adequate to the occasion.
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They begin an intense affair, but as things start to get serious, it becomes evident that she is a kept woman, the mistress of a powerful man in Washington. Tom Farrell presses her for details.

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Susan Atwell: It's David Brice, Secretary of Defense. Satisfied?
Tom Farrell: You know I work for Brice?
Susan Atwell: I guess that makes two of us.
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Sean Young is great in this movie, but her performance is not enough to save this movie. Still, it's worth it to at least watch the first half just to see her go. If you are a fan of tempestuous romance between strangers, you will enjoy this part (the only thing that mars an otherwise enjoyable sequence of events is when they play "Say It" by Paul Anka and Richard Marx. the song may have been composed especially for this film, since there is a repeated refrain that says 'no way out'). No Way Out might be among Sean Young's best performances, but as her notoriously bad luck would have it, that isn't enough. Kevin Costner makes a pretty good action hero, but the story is not at all believable.

At one point he realizes that two assassins have been dispatched to kill Susan Atwell's friend Nina Beka (Iman). He rushes out of the pentagon, comandeers a car from the motor pool, chases them, smashes his car into theirs, jumps off the bridge into a tree and then runs away on foot. They pursue him, but he manages to jump the turnstile of the subway and get on a train in the nick of time. He takes the subway to a shopping mall where Nina works and warns her. She escapes, but the assassins capture him. They take him back to the pentagon, where somehow he is magically protected, and he resumes his old job, heading up the investigation to find the man who was with Susan Atwell, i.e., himself. No mention of him smashing the car and pulling a Halle Berry. No mention of him not paying his subway fare. He is barely reprimanded for his erratic behavior. Seeing this, I flashed back to the night they met:

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[the band has started playing ''D'ya think I'm Sexy' by Rod Stewart and two people start disco dancing]
Susan Atwell: We've got a potential nausea situation building here!
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I couldn't have said it better myself, Susan.

No way. Out!

FILMS AND ROLES OF KEVIN COSTNER

The Postman (1997) .... The Postman
Tin Cup (1996) .... Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy
Waterworld (1995) .... Mariner
The War (1994) .... Stephen Simmons
Wyatt Earp (1994) .... Wyatt Earp
A Perfect World (1993) .... Robert 'Butch' Haynes
The Bodyguard (Special Edition) (1992) .... Frank Farmer
JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1991) .... Jim Garrison
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) .... Robin Hood
Dances with Wolves (1990) .... Lt. John J. Dunbar
Revenge (1990/I) .... Michael J. 'Jay' Cochran
Field of Dreams (1989) .... Ray Kinsella
Bull Durham (1988) .... Crash Davis
No Way Out (1987) .... Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
The Untouchables (1987) .... Eliot Ness

FILMS AND ROLES OF SEAN YOUNG

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) .... Lt. Lois Einhorn / Ray Finkel
Bolt (1994) .... Patty Deerheart
Fatal Instinct (1993) .... Lola Cain
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) .... Marie Barth
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1993) .... Twinkle
Blue Ice (1992) .... Stacy Mansdorf
Once Upon a Crime... (1992) .... Phoebe
Love Crimes (1992) .... Dana Greenway
Forever (1992) .... Mary Miles Minter
A Kiss Before Dying (1991) .... Ellen/Dorothy Carlsson
Fire Birds (1990) .... Billie Lee Guthrie
Cousins (1989) .... Tish Kozinski
The Boost (1988) .... Linda Brown
Arena Brains (1988) .... Artist at Party
Wall Street (1987) .... Kate Gekko
No Way Out (1987) .... Susan Atwell
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) .... Susan Matthews-Loomis
Dune (1984) .... Chani
Young Doctors in Love (1982) .... Dr. Stephanie Brody
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1982) .... Rachael

FILMS AND ROLES OF GENE HACKMAN

Runaway Jury (2003) .... Rankin Fitch
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) .... Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) .... Royal Tenenbaum
Heist (2001/I) .... Joe Moore
Heartbreakers (2001) .... William B. Tensy
The Mexican (2001) (uncredited) .... Arnold Margolese
The Replacements (2000) .... Jimmy McGinty
Under Suspicion (2000) .... Henry Hearst
Enemy of the State (1998) .... Brill
Antz (1998) (voice) .... General Mandible
Twilight (1998) .... Jack Ames
Absolute Power (1997) .... President Allen Richmond
The Chamber (1996) .... Sam Cayhall
Extreme Measures (1996) .... Dr. Lawrence Myrick
The Birdcage (1996) .... Sen. Kevin Keeley
Get Shorty (1995) .... Harry Zimm
Crimson Tide (1995) .... Capt. Frank Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead (1995) .... John Herod
Wyatt Earp (1994) .... Nicholas Earp
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) .... Brig. Gen. George Crook
The Firm (1993) .... Avery Tolar
Unforgiven (1992) .... Little Bill Daggett
Company Business (1991) .... Sam Boyd
Class Action (1991) .... Jedediah Tucker Ward
Narrow Margin (1990) .... Robert Caulfield
Postcards from the Edge (1990) .... Lowell Kolchek
Loose Cannons (1990) .... MacArthur Stern
The Package (1989) .... Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Mississippi Burning (1988) .... Agent Rupert Anderson
Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) .... Floyd
Split Decisions (1988) .... Dan McGuinn
Another Woman (1988) .... Larry Lewis
Bat*21 (1988) .... Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton
No Way Out (1987) .... Defense Secretary David Brice
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) .... Lex Luthor / Voice of Nuclear Man
Hoosiers (1986) .... Coach Norman Dale
Power (1986) .... Wilfred Buckley
Target (1985) .... Walter Lloyd/Duncan (Duke) Potter
Twice in a Lifetime (1985) .... Harry MacKenzie
Eureka (1984) .... Jack McCann
Misunderstood (1984) .... Ned Rawley
Uncommon Valor (1983) .... Col. Cal Rhodes
Two of a Kind (1983) (uncredited) .... Voice of God
Under Fire (1983) .... Alex Grazier
Reds (1981) .... Pete Van Wherry
All Night Long (1981) .... George Dupler
Superman II (1980) .... Lex Luthor
Superman (1978) .... Lex Luthor
March or Die (1977) .... Maj. William Sherman Foster
A Bridge Too Far (1977) .... Maj. Gen. Stanislaw F. Sosabowski
The Domino Principle (1977) .... Roy Tucker
Lucky Lady (1975) .... Kibby Womack
Bite the Bullet (1975) .... Sam Clayton
Night Moves (1975) .... Harry Moseby
French Connection II (1975) .... Doyle
Young Frankenstein (1974) .... Blindman
Zandy's Bride (1974) .... Zandy Allan
The Conversation (1974) .... Harry Caul
Scarecrow (1973) .... Max Millan
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) .... Rev. Frank Scott
Prime Cut (1972) .... Mary Ann
Cisco Pike (1972) .... Sergeant Leo Holland
The French Connection (1971) .... Jimmy Doyle
The Hunting Party (1971) .... Brandt Ruger
Doctors' Wives (1971) .... Dr. Dave Randolph
I Never Sang for My Father (1970) .... Gene Garrison
Marooned (1969) .... Buzz Lloyd
Downhill Racer (1969) .... Eugene Claire
The Gypsy Moths (1969) .... Joe Browdy
Riot (1969) .... Red Fraker
The Split (1968) .... Detective Lt. Walter Brill
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) .... Buck Barrow

FILMS AND ROLES OF IMAN

The Deli (1997) .... Avocado Lady
Exit to Eden (1994) .... Nina Blackstone
Heart of Darkness (1994) (TV) .... Black Beauty
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) .... Martia
The Linguini Incident (1991) .... Dali Guest
House Party 2 (1991) .... Sheila Landreaux
L.A. Story (1991) .... Cynthia
Surrender (1987) .... Hedy
No Way Out (1987) .... Nina Beka
Out of Africa (1985) .... Mariammo
Exposed (1983) .... Model
The Human Factor (1979) .... Sarah

FILMS AND ROLES OF GEORGE DZUNDZA

Basic Instinct (1992) .... Gus Moran
The Butcher's Wife (1991) .... Leo Lemke
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) .... Paul Landers
Impulse (1990) .... Lt. Joe Morgan
The Beast of War (1988) .... Daskal
Honor Bound (1988) .... Wocjinski
No Way Out (1987) .... Sam Hesselman
No Mercy (1986) .... Captain Stemkowski
Best Defense (1984) .... Steve Loparino
Streamers (1983) .... Cokes

FILMS AND ROLES OF SENATOR FRED DALTON THOMPSON

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) .... Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
Baby's Day Out (1994) .... FBI Agent Dale Grissom
In the Line of Fire (1993) .... White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent
Born Yesterday (1993) .... Sen. Hedges
White Sands (1992) (uncredited) .... Arms Dealer
Thunderheart (1992) .... William Dawes
Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992) .... Stockman
Cape Fear (1991) .... Tom Broadbent
Curly Sue (1991) .... Bernard Oxbar
Necessary Roughness (1991) .... Carver Purcell
Class Action (1991) .... Dr. George Getchell
Flight of the Intruder (1991) (uncredited) .... Court-Martial Captain
Die Hard 2 (1990) .... Trudeau
Days of Thunder (1990) .... Big John
The Hunt for Red October (1990) .... Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) .... Maj. Gen. Melrose Hayden Barry
Feds (1988) .... Bill Bilecki
No Way Out (1987) .... CIA Director Marshall September 20, 2008

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