No Exit (2022)

March 4, 2022 8:39 PM

Darby skips rehab and rushes to Salt Lake City after her mother is taken to the hospital. Stranded by a blizzard at an isolated highway rest stop in the mountains, she discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside.

Currently streaming in the US on Hulu.

Directed by Damien Power from a script by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant Man and The Wasp. Produced by Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit).

posted by DirtyOldTown (4 comments total)

This reminds me a little of John Dahl's films in that a simple premise gets exploded and complicated over and over again. Not earth-shattering, but solid and entertaining.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:42 PM on March 4, 2022

This is probably the only movie I can think of in which someone uses cocaine as a power-up before the final action scene.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:15 AM on March 5, 2022

Chekhov's cocaine, if you will.

I liked this, it's an effective little film that sets out to do a thing and then does it well without overstaying its welcome. Went a lot more bloody and intense than I expected, including some very surprising physical comedy.
posted by slimepuppy at 3:22 PM on March 5, 2022

I wanted to enjoy this one more than I did, sadly. Maybe I'm just burned out on movies made during covid which feature small casts in isolated locations.
posted by miss-lapin at 11:38 AM on March 7, 2022