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Tomatoes 'Inescapable': A riff on 'Taken' James Rocchi, Special
to MSN Movies  A lower-budget, higher-fiber riff on Liam
Neeson's "Taken," combining both gun-in-the-hand peril and
earnestness-in-the-heart family drama, "Inescapable" is a prime
example of why there are so many bad thrillers, in that
providing thrills on-screen in a consistent, intelligent,
satisfying way is in fact much tougher than it looks. Writer-
director Ruba Nadda has all the elements here, but the film's
plotting (and budget) means that it doesn't have a lot of
adrenaline until the finale, and it's hard to imagine audiences
being willing to stick with its plodding movements until then.
"Inescapable" starts with the ordinary life of Torontonian Adib
Abdel Kareem (Alexander Siddig of "Syriana" and "Deep Space
Nine"), but as he helps a co-worker with a locked desk drawer by
picking it with a unbent paper clip ("a misspent youth," he
notes with a smile), we get the idea that he has,