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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

Fantasy | 104 minutes / 90 minutes (ingekort)
2,41 85 votes

Genre: Fantasy / Comedy

Duration: 104 minuten / 90 minuten (ingekort)

Country: United States

Directed by: Randy Moore

Stars: Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber and Katelynn Rodriguez

IMDb score: 5,1 (10.371)

Releasedate: 11 October 2013

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Escape from Tomorrow plot

"Bad things happen everywhere."

Jim White is an average American family man who is mostly content with his mundane existence. At the end of his holiday at a theme park, along with his loving wife and children, he is awakened by a disturbing phone call from his boss. He is told that he will be fired. In order not to ruin the last day of the holiday, he waits to tell his family. In a desperate need for distraction, he meets two attractive teenage girls in the park. Jim falls obsessively in love and follows them everywhere. As time goes on he gets deeper and deeper into a paranoid psyche and slowly the boundaries between fantasy and reality fade.

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Onderhond

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Farce.

I heard about this film a while ago; the concept sounded interesting. As is often the case with these kinds of "limitations," it usually doesn't result in good films. That this monstrosity ever made it to production and distribution is a minor miracle.

The acting is so pathetically bad that it could actually be considered a comedy. Abramsohn is absolutely terrible; his wife should probably take another set of acting lessons. The rest of the cast is no better.

But it's really the atmosphere that Moore can't quite grasp. He's just messing around with effects on his own videos... the film feels a bit like simple YouTube experiments, though there are simply better ones out there. As a result, it never becomes strange, never scary, never sinister or paranoid. It's mostly ridiculous.

After the first hour, nothing has really happened, and you're still watching some shitty family with two shitty kids slogging through Disney World. The last half hour, the film tries to pick up the pace, but it just gets more ridiculous. I could barely keep my eyes open for the last fifteen minutes.

As far as I'm concerned, Moore can do something other than filmmaking; he really seemed like a complete failure. Perhaps, after years of hard work, he can work his way up from YouTube amateurism to Vimeo amateurism, but hopefully, we won't have to see that happen.

0.5*

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Flat Eric

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Ok, I'm never going to an amusement park again, haha.

The film started off strong with the slow-witted father developing a Lolita crush on two French-speaking teenage girls. The stalking through the park, combined with the black-and-white filter, created an absurdist, eerie atmosphere. After Jim was held captive at Epcot, the film quickly lost my interest.

Too bad, I think more could have been made of it.

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Shadowed

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A bland genre combination of horror, fantasy, drama, and comedy, with largely unconvincing acting and very cheap special effects. The most unique and noteworthy aspect of Escape from Tomorrow is undoubtedly the filming location, where footage was actually shot in the iconic theme park. Director Randy Moore doesn't do much with it, mainly creating a film with all sorts of half-baked and far-fetched ideas. Moreover, it never gets very exciting, the creativity feels forced, and the black-and-white filter is never used to advantage. All praise for the setup, but overall, there's little to be gained.

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