Nowhere to Run - Such an awful-good film

Do you like cheesy, bad, action movies from the eighties?  If the answer is 'Yes' then you should find entertainment from 'Nowhere to Run' (even if it was made in 1993!).  Jean Claude Van Damme has made some great films.  And some equally bad ones. 'Nowhere to Run' lies so far in the 'bad' category that it transcends its terrible make-up and pushes through the negative to force its way back into the good category.

This time round Van Damme plays - yet another - slight variation of every other character he's ever played when he takes on the form of an escaped criminal who winds up helping a widow and her family protect their land against a bunch of cliched villains, lead by an 'uber cliched' British mastermind.

If you like action, then you won't find much of it here.  Yes, there are the obligatory punch-ups and car chases, but they're not filmed particularly well and therefore you'll be shaking your head at how someone actually thought they would satisfy adrenaline junkies.

If you had some sort of 'action movie bingo' card, I reckon you could tick off pretty much every trope associated with the genre.  And that's even before you mentioned the script.  It's awful.  In fact, there are some moments in the dialogue which just come so out-of-the-blue that you'll find yourself laughing at the sheer ludicrous randomness of the inclusion of such lines.

And yet for all its - many - faults, I found myself taking enormous entertainment from 'Nowhere to Run.' In some places I found myself laughing harder than many comedy films.  It's not a film you should take seriously.  If you stopped to over-analyse the plot for even a fraction of a second you'd find youself trying to make sense of something that just isn't meant to be logical.  If ever a film required you to put your brain 'on hold' then it was this one.  Sheer popcorn fodder.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that