I got this on DVD at Walmart. It came with "The Order", which is a strange but fun change of pace for Van Damme and "The Shepherd" which is not too bad for what it was. This triple feature came at me for 5 bucks, so naturally I had to get it. My main reason for getting it was Nowhere to Run. I hadn't seen this movie since the 90's and after that it fell into obscurity, considering JCVD released better quality in films. The movie takes place in a shanty town that apparently wanted to try too hard to look rural. It's not a bad setting but it made the movie somehow look dull. (That plus the lack of a good score, which was basically absent through most of the film's better scenes) After movies like "Lionheart" and "Bloodsport" where Van Damme looked incredible as the good hearted hero, in this one, he tries to be and look rugged for his convict persona. Included the stubble he rarely grew in movies back then and the laid back but heavy foreign accent. It definitely seemed like he was into his part but he drops subtle signs of weakness in his acting, like for example, when he intentionally mispronounces the word 'Motorcycle' and his delivery of obligatory 90s action movie one liners. Only good thing about his performance, is he didn't pull any fancy moves. He kept it brawling and I liked that. I'm a JCVD fan for life, but this movie is one of the reasons why I get when some people dislike him. Moving on to the supporting cast, Rosanna Arquette and Kieran Culkin did great as mother and son who take kind to a random drifter. The chemistry between the 2 of them wasn't any better at mom and son than it was for JCVD and Rosanna (whom according to interviews, disliked working with Van Damme) Ted Levine is always fun to watch and actually menacing in his role. In fact, I can't really remember a role where Ted Levine was rubbish, because even in "Flubber' he delivered some great scenes that combined his tough guy act and his comedic timing. The movie is simple enough, with some good decent fight sequences thrown in between. The story could've used some more development, like for example: some retrospective scenes where it showed Van Damme's failed bank robbery or his aforementioned marriage, so it would have made Van Damme's character a bit more sympathetic because you just end up feeling sorry for the poor family caught in between his story and the film's plot. Im pretty sure, this was a movie that was still polishing his acting skills and expanding his resumé as a leading action star but there were definitely better ones. Not bad at all. Fun little movie to watch when you want to snack on something at 2am and be amused while you're at it. But if you really wanna get into his movies, I wouldn't suggest this as your first one.

This is what I consider a good Van Damme flick. The story has been told many times. It is similar in many respects to Romeo Must Die - evil developer wants to put up a kitzy development and needs to run off small landowners. Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) resists and her deputy dawg boyfriend (Edward Blatchford) is playing both sides. In comes the hard-ass to get things finished (a very young Ted Levine) and, at the same time our hero breaks out of prison and camps on her doorstep. It seems Van Damme is always either breaking out of prison or going AWOL. Relationships with her two cute kids begin and then things really heat up with mom. Boyfriend is jealous and it all comes to a head, as expected, between Van EDamme and Levine. Smaltzy ending, but great chases. fights, and lots of passion.

I've always been a great fan of this film, I really think is underrated just because is starred by the the action star Jean Claude Van Damme,who had proved that he can be a competent actor.NOWHERE TO RUN IS ONE OF HIS BEST WORKS, a very well done film, with great performances, very good story and a really good soundtrack..it has action scenes that are all really good made,but in this film are different than other Van Damme movies, I would say that here the fights are more realistic according with the story but some jean claude fans can be disappointed, I am a big Van Damme fan and I was not disappointed at all, I really believe Van Damme needs more movies like this or the legionarie, JCVD,in hell to silence his critics...A GREAT FILM

***SPOILER*** Jean-Claude Van Damme is disbarred lawyer and escaped convict Sam Gillen who's partner in crime Billy, Anthony Starke, he took the rap for in gunning down a bank guard that he's now serving a life sentence for. Billy grateful for what Sam did for him attempts to free him from a prison bus. This leads to Billy's death in him getting shot from behind while he and Sam were making their escape in Billy's getaway car.Now all alone with the heat, police & state troopers, bearing down on him Sam makes his way to the far off Anderson farm and wait for things to cool off. It's also there where he and Billy hid the loot from their last and final bank robbery. At first Sam spends his time sneaking in and out of the Anderson house looking for food and salt & pepper shakers to give his cooked bland and tasteless stakes, from the game he hunts down, some flavor. It's also when stealing the houses condiments that Sam runs into Mookie, Kieran Culkin, the son of the lady of the house widowed Clydie Anderson, Rosanne Arquette. Mookie who's father died when he was an infant looks up to the strapping and handsome Sam as a father figure to play baseball as well as go out hunting and fishing with. At first planning to get the buried bank money and scram to parts unknown with it before the police and state troopers get a bead on him Sam decides to make himself at home at the Anderson place while planning his next move. That's until Sam finds out that big time land developer Franklin Hale, Joss Ackland, and his paid goons headed by a Mr. Duston, Ted Levine, want to run Clydie together with her son Mookie and daughter Bree, Tiffany Tabman, out of their home and build a high rise condo in its place! With Clydie refusing to sign her home and farm away to the greedy and evil Franklin Hale he gets Duston & Co. to tighten the screws on her! This has Sam who's now a permanent resident as well as Clydie's new boyfriend a bit ticked off to say the least!Other complications soon arrive in the relationship between Sam & Clydie in that her former boyfriend and protector from Franklin Hale & Co. local Sheriff Lonnie Cole, Edward Blatchford, who's actually on Franklin Hale's payroll gets a bit jealous in Sam taking Clydie away from him. Sam seeing all the trouble that he's causing and that it's only a matter of time that his criminal past is discovered by the local police, as well as Franklin Hale, takes off in his, which he bought from Clydie for $300.00, newly restored 1969 650cc Triumh T-120 Bonneville motorcycle only to be chased down by what looks like an army of police and state troopers on foot car horseback and even helicopter. Making his way back to the Anderson place Sam gets there just in time before Hale and his goons lead by his security and torture specialist Duston brutally work Clydie and her kids over in order to force her sign her house and farm away to him.***SPOILERS**** Sam who just about had enough of living on the lamb from the law and is more then willing to pay from his crime as a bank robber, Billy in a tape that he made before he was killed exonerated Sam in the bank guard killing, goes all out against Hale and his goons even with the the entire state police force and state troopers hot on his tail! Before he's finally arrested, by Sheriff Cole no less, Sam does a number on Hale & Co. especially Mr.Duston who was itching to have it out with him during the entire film. By the time the movie was over Duston if he were still alive & conscious realized that was a Big Big Big mistake on his part!