John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" is the undisputed king of futuristic movies about soldiers fighting bad guys on a prison island, but it isn't the only great one of the bunch. In 1994, the late Hollywood legend Ray Liotta starred in the Martin Campbell-directed "No Escape," an unsung action treat that is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Based on Richard Herley's "The Penal Colony," Campbell's film takes place in the year 2022, where corporations rule over the justice and penal systems. This leads to the creation of an off-the-grid island called Absolom, where criminals are sent to fend for themselves. Enter Liotta's John Robbins, a Snake Plissken-esque lone-wolf warrior who gets imprisoned in the remote hellscape as punishment for killing his commanding office

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