{"id":10136,"date":"2016-07-12T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:10:28","slug":"no-one-lives-movie-review-no-one-lives-starring-luke-evans-adelaide-clemens-and-derek-magyar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/no-one-lives-movie-review-no-one-lives-starring-luke-evans-adelaide-clemens-and-derek-magyar\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Lives Movie Review: No One Lives starring Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens and Derek Magyar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young woman, Emma, (Adelaide Clemens) screams. Again. We see her running in the forest, but she is caught by a trap, and is hung upside down by her feet. She\u2019s not getting away, but she isn\u2019t going down without a fight, either.<\/p>\n

A bunch of redneck criminals are looting a family\u2019s house, but when the family arrives early, one of them shoots them all in reflex, angering all the other members and forcing them to forgo their potential earnings.<\/p>\n

Driver (Luke Evans<\/a>) is moving away with his younger girlfrined to a new start. There seem to be issues between them, though they look like a couple that have deep feelings for each other. From their innuendos, we suspect an affair on the driver\u2019s side. He apologizes for messing things up.<\/p>\n

They stop by a motel and watch the news: the girl in the forest is still missing after about 6 months, but she has managed to carve EMMA ALIVE on the tree.<\/p>\n

They later go to a diner\/bar suggested by the motel owner, and the girlfriend is still upset about the other woman. The diner is empty, but soon the redneck gang arrives. The members aren\u2019t looking for trouble, aside from the guy, Flynn (Derek Magyar) who killed the family. He\u2019s certain our couple is loaded, and he disturbs them. The gang leader (Lee Tergesen) prevents him from bothering anyone further, but Flynn won\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s car is crashed into, and they\u2019re wounded. They wake up in an empty storage place, guarded by the massive gang member Ethan, who seems like he could eat a couple of successful boxers alive.<\/p>\n

The members are angry, but Flynn has returned with the couple\u2019s car and trailer. He is sure Ethan can get the couples\u2019 \u201cfinancial\u201d information easily, making up for the loss.<\/p>\n

But what torture-ready Ethan doesn\u2019t count on is the girlfriend completely losing it, and the Driver \u201closing\u201d it even further. What starts out as a couple in distress, turns into a worse psychopath \u2013 a psycopath who\u2019s weapons and combat-trained, hunting down the gang members one by one…<\/p>\n

And as the gang members turn into victims, they will face other twists and turns.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

As we slowly lose any sympathy we might have had for the driver, we still root for him to kick the gang members\u2019 ass. They overestimated themselves and severely underestimated him. And it\u2019s one thing terrifiying\/killing a helpless family, and it\u2019s another when they are going against a Dexter meets Hannibal meets Bourne \u2013 only without the morals or cannibalism.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the most sophisticated dialogue, and switches between finely foreshadowing and extremly on the nose. That said, I actually like on-the-nose dialogue when it works, and you can\u2019t help like Driver talk what\u2019s on his head without hesitation or calculation. Why not be blunt and open when you\u2019re the one with a plan to kill everyone brutally, innocent or otherwise? And when he doesn\u2019t kill you, it might even be a worse sign….<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

For a very bloody and mindless action\/thriller, it\u2019s pretty good entertainment. Some things could be improved, but it\u2019s always fun to have a psycho hunting other psychos, and when he is strangely for empowering his chosen female victims while screwing them the hell up and developing his version of Stockholm Syndrome.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love a sequel or a prequel, to be honest. Written by David Cohen. Directed by\u00a0Ry\u00fbhei Kitamura.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Favorite Lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leader : Are you a serial killer?
\nDriver : Serial killers work in solidarity, I am more of a numbers guy.<\/p>\n

Driver\u2019s Girlfriend: A man who lacks emotion is sorry.
\nDriver : I don\u2019t lack emotion. I just process it differently*. (*Which is the understatement of the year, really.)<\/p>\n

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\nEnjoy this bloody thriller. No pun intended. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

 
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