No Way Out - There is no turning back

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Movie
German title No Way Out - There is no turning back
Original title No way out
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12 (previously 16)
Rod
Director Roger Donaldson
script Robert Garland
production Robert Garland
Mace Neufeld
music Maurice Jarre
camera John Alcott
cut William Hoy
Neil Travis
occupation

No Way Out (Original title: No Way Out ) is an American thriller from 1987. The director was Roger Donaldson , the screenplay was written by Robert Garland based on the novel The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing . The main roles were played by Kevin Costner , Gene Hackman and Sean Young .

action

Tom Farrell, Commander of the US Navy , describes in an interrogation the events that brought him into this situation:

At the invitation of his old schoolmate Scott Pritchard, special advisor to the Secretary of Defense , Farrell meets his boss, Minister David Brice, at an election party and meets Susan Atwell, with whom he falls in love. Susan is also the Secretary of Defense's secret lover.

After Farrell rescues a comrade on the high seas, Defense Secretary Brice has him brought to his staff at the Department of Defense . When Brice visits Susan again, Farrell is still there and uses the back exit, but is seen by Brice, who does not recognize Farrell. Brice then wants to learn more about her lover from Susan and hits her, causing her to fall over a railing and die.

Brice wants to face the police, but is persuaded by his advisor Scott Pritchard to cover up the case. To this end, the accident is to be portrayed as a murder , carried out by Juri, the stereotype of a Soviet “ mole ” in his own ranks, who tries to get secrets from Minister Brice through Susan. This allows the Department of Defense to pull the case and keep the local FBI and police out of the investigation. Since Brice and Scott are unaware of Susan's relationship with Farrell, Farrell is put in charge of the search for the agent. Commander Farrell is now trying to prove the crime to Brice, while all the evidence points more and more to himself. As best he can, Farrell removes material that would incriminate him.

But Scott has already hired two professional killers to eliminate unwanted witnesses to Brice's connection with Susan and Susan's unknown lover. The lover is said to be posthumously "convicted" of Susan's Juri and murderer. Despite some sticky situations, Farrell manages to escape every time.

Finally, Farrell's old friend Sam Hesselman from the IT department confesses to Scott that he tampered with the computer at Farrell's request, because Farrell loved Susan and he believes Brice killed her. Thereupon he is shot by Scott. With this knowledge, the two professional killers now hunt down Farrell, who can escape to the office of the Secretary of Defense. Farrell confronts Brice with the list generated by Hesselman, which shows that a jewelry box he found on Susan was Brice's. Wanting to prevent his relationship with Susan from being known, he accuses Scott of murdering Susan and asks Farrell for help. Then Scott shoots himself. Farrell has the statement delivered to the CIA . Scott is now being traded as Juri by investigators because of Sam's murder and subsequent suicide. Farrell is not yet out of the line of fire because a Polaroid photo of him found at the crime scene, which was initially black, was made visible by technical means.

Finally, it turns out that the entrance situation is not an interrogation, but that Farrell is actually Juri and his supervisors from the KGB want him to justify what happened . His commanding officer wants to order Farrell back to Moscow as a Hero of the Soviet Union because he has been blown. However, Farrell wants to stay in the US and leaves the room. His senior officer lets him go, expressing his belief that Farrell has no choice but to return.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films described No Way Out as "cleverly constructed" and as a "thriller with subtle tension that denounces cynicism and abuse of power".

Roger Ebert praised the plot, which he compared to a puzzle, and the performances of the actors in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 14, 1987. The film "respects" the intelligence of its viewers. He counted the thriller among the “most outstanding examples of the genre”.

Ulrich Behrens described the film at www.filmstarts.de as “exciting” but “unrealistic” and the end as “constructed”.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable .

backgrounds

The film was produced by Orion Pictures Corporation and is a remake of Game With Death . The shooting took place u. a. in Washington, DC , Arlington County , Virginia, and Baltimore .

The film is dedicated to cinematographer John Alcott , who died on July 28, 1986 at the age of only 55 shortly after filming was completed.

The opening credits of the film were designed by Pablo Ferro . Brad Pitt can be seen briefly at a reception .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for No Way Out - There is no turning back . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2004 (PDF; test number: 59 002 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ No Way Out - There is no turning back. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, August 14, 1987
  4. ^ Criticism by Ulrich Behrens at www.filmstarts.de
  5. ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb