PORTAL: NO ESCAPE

PORTAL: NO ESCAPE
Now Streaming on Youtube
5/5 Stars

If you aren’t one of the many viewers of this video (which had just over 5,000,000 hits at the time of this writing), go check it out now. No Escape is a 7-minute live-action short film based on the hit Portal video game series which brings to mind three questions:

1. Do you have to be familiar with the video game to understand it?

No, the video is self-contained. Anyone can understand it. Also, with its lack of dialogue, you don’t even have to speak English.

2. Do the low-budget effects look terrible?

No, the video looks amazing. At no time will the effects take you out of the story.

3. Why can’t all video game movies be this good?

I don’t know. But there is some buzz about the film’s creator Dan Trachtenberg being given a budget to try a feature-length adaptation. Until then, we’ll just have to enjoy this one. Because seriously, this was a triumph.