Five movies to escape with…

Posted on 2 January, 2017

Run. Basically…run!

Evading captors, an oncoming storm, aliens or bandits, escape on film can be one of the most exciting cinematic devices. As the audience – hearts in mouths and breath barely a gasp – we hope, no matter what the impossible odds, that our heroes will make it.

Here are five celluloid moments that had me on the edge of my seat.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones running from a huge rolling boulder… and he stumbles!

2012

Pick a sequence, any sequence, and there will be the stomach- dropping moment where it could all go wrong.

Alien

Run Ripley run! Or hide, or fight! But with a franchise like this she could never truly escape…

The Bourne Identity

Any Jason Bourne outing, really. I can barely breathe through some of these chase scenes.

Speed

Keanu and Sandra and a bus that can’t slow down – it still sends me to the edge and I’ve seen it at least 10 times!

Feature image: impawards.com

This article originally appeared in Magazine: Escape for Summer 2016/17. Find out more about Magazine here.