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No Way Out

1987

Roger Donaldson

Kevin Costner, Sean Young, Gene Hackman, Will Patton ...

6.4

12,129

Thriller. Mystery Thriller in which a naval commander begins dating an alluring woman who happens to be the girlfriend of his boss (the Secretary of Defense). When the woman is murdered, the Secretary assigns the task of tracking down the killer to the military officer -- who promptly becomes the main suspect.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It respects the audience's intelligence, gives us a great deal of information, trusts us to put it together and makes the intellectual analysis of the situation one of the movie's great pleasures (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"A film that is better than it has to be and not as good as it ought to be, but there is skill here, as well as an admirable willingness to try something new."	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It's so effective, in fact, that when it's all over, you might want to sit through the beginning again just to see if the end is justified by the means"	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"No Way Out's greatest prize is Costner, a leading man at last: fiercely good, intelligent, appreciatively sensual in a performance balanced perfectly between action and introspection."	POS
United States	Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"A juicy thriller-romance bursting out of the Pentagon's arid corridors"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"The film makes such good use of Washington and builds suspense so well that it transcends a plot bordering on ridiculous."	NEU

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