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Aka: The Penal Colony
Robbins is sent to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you only get out of when you die. Since nobody ever gets out of the prison, nobody knows how the prison is like. The prison manager has realized this and bought himself an island (playground) called "Absolom" where the worst prisoners are let lose to create an isolated barbaric society where the strongest men rule - a living hell. This is where Robbins is dropped off after he almost kills the prison manager.
A man from the future fights to survive in a society thrown back to the dark ages in this sci-fi adventure set in 2022. Capt. Robbins (Ray Liotta) is a military man who, after he's convicted of the murder of his superior officer, is sentenced to a high-tech prison ruled by the Warden (Michael Lerner), a cruel taskmaster who enjoys torturing his inmates. After a scuffle with the Warden, Robbins is transferred to a primitive island penal colony known as Absalom, where the civilization is dominated by two groups, the Insiders, a peaceful tribe led by the Father (Lance Henriksen), and the Outsiders, a pack of violent...
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misfits led by Marek (Stuart Wilson). Robbins runs afoul of the Outsiders and is injured in a skirmish; he escapes to the Insiders' camp, where he plots his revenge. No Escape was based on the novel The Penal Colony by Richard Herley.
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In a bleak future, a Marine Captain is sentenced to a remote prison island on which two factions of prisoners, one of builders and the other of looters, are at war. While the looters plot a final attack, the Captain searches for a means of escape.
Absolom is een gevangenen-eiland 200 mijl van de kust, waar gevangenen gedropt en aan hun lot overgelaten worden. Voor zover de gevangenen weten is er geen bewaking, maar ook geen mogelijkheid om te ontsnappen. Robbins wordt bij de slechte gevangen gedropt maar hij weet te ontsnappen en komt bij gevangen aan de andere kant van het eiland. Zij proberen een nieuwe samenleving voor zichzelf op te richten, maar Robbins is niet van plan om op dit eiland te blijven.
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[1] Portal: No Escape is a must see for everyone, but especially video game fans. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg [2], who has been directing commercials for the last few years, slowly working towards his feature film directorial debut. In May, he directed a horror short film "More Than You Can Chew" [3] for Black Box TV, which got a bunch of people in Hollywood talking. Dan surprise premiered a new short film at Comic-Con, which was met with a standing ovation by the almost packed crowd. The film brings a grounded realism to this sci-fi concept, which is rarely seen in video game movie adaptations. Watch Portal: No Escape now embedded after the jump. Trivia: ?The movie stars Danielle Rayne , who has been working on tv for the last two decades, including a regular stint on All My Children .
If the strong female action character reminds you of Sarah Conner,
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