“Nowhere To Run” is not bad as such but it is one of the most lifeless and dullest action films that have ever been made. The acting isn’t terrible, the plot isn’t awful and the action sequences aren’t poor but there’s just nothing about them that you’ll remember shortly after viewing the picture.

In “Nowhere To Run”, Jean-Claude Van Damme (“Universal Soldier”, “Hard Target”) is an escaped criminal, who finds himself helping a widowed farmer (Rosanna Arquette “Pulp Fiction”) and her family fight off greedy property tycoons. It turns out the bad guys aren’t going to stop so Van Damme is going to need all his fighting abilities to save the day.

Van Damme is of course not one of the great actors of all-time. I’ve enjoyed him in his roles where he recognises that his strength really is in his fighting but in this film the action sequences are so mundane that Van Damme’s skills seem to go to waste. Rosanna Arquette is okay as the farmer Clydie but the film is so bland that she also becomes quite bland. One of the sort-of amusing aspects of the films are the villains because I love how cinema likes to portray loggers, industrialists or property tycoons as bad guys when in reality, it’s a perfectly legitimate line of work.

“Nowhere To Run” isn’t as entertaining as some of Van Damme’s pictures (I much preferred “Universal Soldier” or “Sudden Death”) and it certainly isn’t an ambitious project. Like a lot of his films, Van Damme’s pictures really don’t feel all that memorable and “Nowhere To Run” is definitely not memorable. I really can’t see anybody enjoying “Nowhere To Run”; I think even a lot of Van Damme’s fans will see this as a really forgettable entry in his filmography. In case you didn’t get the hints, “Nowhere To Run” isn’t worth your time.