There's No Way Out

Premise is two young girls being raised by 'off-the-grid' parents. Father is psychotic. Illness forces the two sisters to escape for treatment. At hospital, nurse agrees to foster children while court system adjudicates matter. Psychotic father keeps trying to kidnap children back.

However, the screenplay is fraught with impossible events.

1. Despite not knowing where nurse lives, off-grid parents show up at house.

2. Despite not knowing alarm code, off-grid mother enters house and shuts off alarm.

3. Despite living 10 miles away, off-grid parents with no vehicle are continually showing up in nurses backyard each night.

4. Psychotic father enters hospital numerous times as if hospital has zero admissions security.

5. Psychotic father finds morphine vial just sitting in an unsecured cart.....as if narcotic drugs are just left laying around in the open.

6. I normally like Marcus Rosner, but in this flick, he is scripted to be as dumb as a bag of rocks playing the nurses husband.

What could have been a good thriller watch is constantly degraded by implausible events.

A nurse and her husband attempt to foster a pair of abused sisters, but the new family is stalked by the biological parents.

I wanted to like 'There's No Way Out,' but the writer sacrifices logic so much that this habit becomes distracting. How does a stalker who's on foot keep up with a car? Why are there no security cameras in a hospital? Why is the door to a house left unlocked during the day? Why does this unlocked door trigger an alarm? How does a certain someone know a security code? Why are foster parents not informed of their kids' history by a social worker? How did a character who wasn't alone make an emergency call undetected?

I could go on. Instead, I want to mention that I did enjoy the performances, particularly those of Elizabeth Longshaw and Marcus Rosner, who play the foster parents, though this bond features the usual cliche in which one person sees what's really going on, while the other is too naive.

The film skips over a crucial part early on, in which an unseen shopping trip apparently bridges the gap between the foster mother and her older child. However, there are some nice scenes featuring the kids and their new parents later.

Overall, it's a decent effort that could have benefited from a bit more care.