Fans of Donaldson's accidental action man should seek out some of his other films, "Sleeping Dogs" and "White Sands." The last 15 minutes are a masterclass in sustained tension, sucking out enough air to guarantee a gasp for the final surprise, whether or not it digests in memory. He outruns cars, the combined might of Pentagon security, and a dot-matrix printer humming his death sentence in Morse code. Costner, still a Tom Cruise contemporary and not yet Americana made flesh, sweats through the screen.
The back nine of "No Way Out" is a frenzied race against a slow bullet. Director Roger Donaldson sells the hook beautifully on the Blu-ray commentary: " Basically you've got a guy hunting for himself for a crime that he didn't commit."
Over the course of a single night, Costner's character finds himself framed as both a murderer and the intelligence community's Bigfoot - a Russian double agent embedded deep within the American government known only as "Yuri." The catch is, Costner is tasked with searching for "Yuri," and knows that Hackman's investigation will eventually find evidence leading to his arrest, but hasn't yet.
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