No Way Up - There is no escape

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Movie
German title No Way Up - There is no escape
Original title Throttle
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director James Seale
script Neil Elman ,
James Seale
production Marcia Morgan
music Neal Acree
camera Richard Lerner
cut Peder Morgenthaler ,
James Seale
occupation

No Way Up - There is no escape (Original title: Throttle ) is an American action thriller related to the film Duel by Steven Spielberg .

action

The finance broker Tom Weaver has engaged in opaque financial transactions with the fraudster Gavin Matheson and meets with him for a meeting on the fifth basement of a parking garage . With a front company and a few twists and turns on the computer, they want to gain $ 10.6 million. They then take the elevator to the important meeting with their planned victims to persuade them to transfer the money.

After the conversation has been successfully concluded, they go back to the fifth basement, where Tom slowly suffers from a remorse and explains Gavin to get out of the machinations, causing him to rush away in a rage. Tom then also wants to leave, but his car does not start anymore, the stairs have been blocked and he does not have the lift ticket for the elevators that Gavin carries with him. When he wants to make his way through the parking decks on foot, he is suddenly chased by a dark truck, the driver of which is sitting behind tinted windows. During the following game of cat and mouse across the parking decks, Tom begins to mentally go through all the suspects who might have a reason to get rid of him. In short flashbacks, several people are introduced who have a motive: his wife Molly, whom he has long suspected of cheating with Gavin, because he believes that money is more valuable to her than love, or Gavin himself, who still has him threatened and might feel betrayed by the fraud because of his resignation. But he also remembers his secretary, with whom he had a relationship and who warned him about her husband, who would kill both of them immediately if he found out.

On the way he meets a woman who goes to her vehicle and believes she has been saved, but she escapes from fear and is shot by the truck driver shortly afterwards. He also encounters a car burglar whom he kills in self-defense and a security guard who turns out to be the secretary's husband and who is immediately run over by the truck. On another floor he also meets Gavin, who was seriously injured by the truck driver and, shortly before his death, assured Tom that Molly had not cheated on him at all and had also refused his money.

When the truck meets again, it manages to pinch Tom under a rear wheel. Now that all the suspects he could imagine were dead or exonerated, he is all the more surprised when the driver gets out and it is the parking lot attendant of the underground car park named Eddie. He complains about the loneliness of his work and the indifference of his fellow human beings and complains that everyone has only themselves on their minds without ever being interested in his concerns or problems. When Molly drives into the underground car park to surprise her husband and speak to him, she is gagged by the killer and tied up in the guard's house on the top floor. Now that he has reception again, Tom succeeds in alerting the police via cell phone and freeing Molly before the truck attacks her one last time and disappears on the lower floors. Tom and the arriving police officers find the truck and can only determine that Eddie shot himself.

Role model and reminiscences

The film contains some reminiscences of the 1971 film Duel by Steven Spielberg. Director James Seale himself describes No Way Up as a "restricted version" of the Spielberg classic.

  1. The name of the protagonist is "Weaver", just like the name of the main character in "Duel".
  2. The name of the deceiver Gavin is "Matheson", like the name of the screenwriter of "Duell".
  3. At the beginning of the film you can see a close-up of a car driving through the picture, which looks exactly like the Plymouth Valiant from "Duel" and the driver of the car looks very similar to the driver from "Duel".
  4. At first you only ever see the truck driver's boots, just like in "Duel". However, at the end of the film the identity is revealed, while in "Duel" the truck driver's face is never actually shown.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mccouch.webs.com ( Memento from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )