Reviews of No Way Out 1987

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  • Patrick Willems

    ★★★★ Watched by Patrick Willems 02 Aug 2022 6

    The 80s were a better time for movies because a major plot point could be “this giant computer console is going to take twelve hours to download this photo”

  • Will Menaker

    ★★ Watched by Will Menaker 25 Jan 2021 6

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • David Sims

    ★★★½ Watched by David Sims 26 Oct 2022 5

    HORNY

  • SilentDawn

    ★★★ Watched by SilentDawn 22 Feb 2025 5

    60

    Starts off relatively anonymous for an erotic thriller, but it takes its time to fully reveal itself, pushing towards the realm of conspiracy suspense and government agency politicking. Good not great.

  • Adam Nayman

    ★★★½ Rewatched by Adam Nayman 21 Aug 2020 4

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Bobby Wagner

    ★★★ Watched by Bobby Wagner 07 Jun 2024

    *tapping my hand on this movie like the trunk of a car*

    look how many Cold War anxieties we can fit in this bad boy. they don’t make ‘em like this anymore!

  • matt lynch

    ★★★★ Watched by matt lynch 30 Jun 2021

    Like a feature-length, extremely entertaining episode of The Americans.

    Discussed on Episode 64 of The Suspense is Killing Us.

  • shookone

    ★★½ Watched by shookone 31 Jan 2025

    Hackman & Patton are giving some serious Burns & Smithers vibes here.

  • chavel

    ★★★★ Watched by chavel 24 Jan 2021 3

    Very underrated Kevin Costner thriller. He’s Tom Farrell, a Naval Officer who gets hot and heavy in the backseat of a limo with Susan (Sean Young), a would-be Washington socialite. Susan is the mistress of the Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman), and Brice's indecipherable jealousy towards the unknown lover leads to foul play. Suddenly, Farrell is placed in charge of an under wraps investigation that can stay an internal matter as long as the suspect in question is…

  • maddie

    ★★★★ Watched by maddie 18 May 2024

    horny thriller for horny people.

  • Dizzle_Sizzle

    ★★★½ Watched by Dizzle_Sizzle 19 Aug 2021 3

    Not only does it serve up one the gutsiest and most absurd wraparound misdirects of the '80s neo-noir crop, but this manages to effectively confine its conspiratorial oppression within the walls of one of the world's most secure buildings for a self-serving, titular flex with twisty-turny tension and on-foot chases aplenty. The Hackman-Patton dynamic adds a bizarre extra dimension to it as well, especially given Patton's all-in portrayal of the obsequious, wide-eyed nutjob that is Pritchard.

  • theironcupcake

    ★★ Watched by theironcupcake 15 Nov 2023 12

    "You have no idea what men of power can do!"

    Noirvember #15
    (Warning: spoilers ahead, including the ending.)

    You know how people like to say that everything old is new again? Sometimes that's true, as it was last night on Dancing with the Stars, when Barry Williams - who I'm proud to say I voted for every week - went out with a bang in what ended up being his final performance of the competition, a salsa to Whitney Houston's…

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