Escape – Fight Or Run (2023)

Escape – Fight or Run (2023) was just lame, failed and bad!!!

Not to be confused with the South Korean film directed by Jong-pil Lee, or the film directed by Rodrigo Cortés, both released in the same year, 2024!!!

Human trafficking is a very serious subject… but it’s all in good fun!
The film has plenty of action and violence, but also inconsistency and unrealistic elements.
Clearly not great cinema!

Unscrupulous human traffickers kidnap Karla and Lucy during their dream holiday at a remote island resort. The attractive young women are locked up in a dungeon in an isolated country house, where they meet other female victims. These ten trafficked women find themselves in the clutches of a ruthless criminal gang. Together, the group plans to escape. But faced with the brutality of the gang’s members, the women must go to their absolute limit – and not hesitate to resort to violence. Desperate to survive in the desert, two of them hatch a daring escape plan that sparks their fight for freedom.

Well… they’re pretty, sexy, supportive, and sometimes even adorable… but not very clever. At the same time, I say that, but I’m sure I’d react even worse than they would if I found myself in such a situation!

Howard J. Ford is an English independent filmmaker, writer-director, and producer, best known for his 2021 film ‘The Lockdown Hauntings’, starring Tony Todd, Angela Dixon, and Russell Shaw, which was shot entirely during the COVID-19 containment. This film is probably his worst, unless the two zombie films are even worse! Dark Game (2024) was much better, though.

The desert, the women-in-danger, injured-by-criminals aspect will probably bring to mind the execrable Revenge (2017). This one isn’t the worst film I’ve seen, but it’s pretty well up there in the top ultra bad. So, if you really like thrillers, you’ll probably regret seeing it and there’s very little chance you’ll love it.

Come on, let’s face it, it’s not always very well-acted (it’s often overplayed), the dialogue isn’t the most gripping in the world, the criminals are very clichéd, and their accents don’t really help them to be taken seriously.

What’s more, the actors and actresses speak as if they were giving us English lessons rather than showing us a real film.

The further the film progresses, the more it becomes unintentionally laugh-out-loud pathetic.
It’s hard to make a serious English film, so tempting is it to sink into British humour!!!

It’s not rape and revenge, but it’s strongly inspired by it. The last ten minutes descend into Hostel 2 (2007) style gore. While the film’s intention may have been good, at some point the result is and remains undeniably really bad.