peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2010 04 16 NoWayOut

No Way Out (1987)

Fri, Apr 16, 2010./noise/movies | Link

I got talking to Rob about Blade Runner and he suggested I see this as another example of Sean Young's efforts in the 1980s. It also features Gene Hackman and a young Kevin Costner, both of whom are bigger than the movie. It's not bad, and very 1980s — I don't doubt that it was Iman's acting in this that won her David Bowie's heart. The tension ramps up, sometimes implausibly and clunkily, but nevertheless resolutely, until it is abruptly terminated by a non-sequitur of an ending.