History YMMV / NoEscape1994

* HarsherInHindsight:
** As pointed out by [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/noescape1994.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]], the film's depiction of the prison-industrial complex is both depressingly accurate to and in some ways ''less'' dystopian than in the actual 2022.
** As an eerie coincidence, 2022 was the very year that Creator/RayLiotta would die.
* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small riot squad on a helicopter personally [[WeJustNeedToWaitForRescue without even waiting a few extra minutes for additional squads to get ready]] and then landing where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter squad is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do in person that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted {{mook|s}}. Was he trying to silence specific witnesses? Eliminate evidence that only he knows about? Rescue his [[TheMole Mole]]? Who knows.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheHeavy Walter Marek]] is the [[FauxAffablyEvil cultured, yet savage]], leader of the Outsiders on the prison island. Keeping them savage and devoted to violence and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], Marek also forces others into [[GladiatorGames gladiator fights]] for amusement, and to keep a brutal system going. When he is humiliated before his men, he promptly kills one who questions him and heads to massacre the more peaceful Insiders. After being repelled, he later [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forces two of the heroes to fight to the death]], before attempting to slaughter the Insiders once again.

** As an eerie coincidence, 2022 was the very year that Creator/RayLiotta would pass on.

** At least part of it is implied to be [[ItsPersonal the Warden’s vendetta with Robbins]] clouding his better judgment. Considering he has an OhCrap look when he learns that Robbins survived his encounter with Marek and has been taken in by the Insiders, he was hoping to have him suffer at Marek’s hands for defying him in front of the prisoners.

** As pointed out by [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/noescape1994.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]], the film's depiction of the prison-industrial complex is in some ways ''less'' dystopian than what we actually got by 2022.

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small riot squad on a helicopter personally [[WeJustNeedToWaitForRescue without even waiting a few extra minutes for additional squads to get ready]] and then landing where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter squad is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do in person that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted {{mook|s}}. Was he trying to silence specific witnesses? Eliminate evidence that only he knows about? Rescue his [[TheMole Mole]]? Who knows.

* HarsherInHindsight: As pointed out by [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/noescape1994.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]], the film's depiction of the prison-industrial complex is in some ways ''less'' dystopian than what we actually got by 2022.

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small riot squad on a helicopter personally and landing it where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter squad is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do in person that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted {{mook|s}}. Was he trying to silence specific witnesses? Eliminate evidence that only he knows about? Rescue his [[TheMole Mole]]? Who knows.

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small squad on a helicopter personally and landing it where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted {{mook|s}}. Was he trying to silence specific witnesses? Eliminate evidence that only he knows about? Rescue his [[TheMole Mole]]? Who knows.

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small squad on a helicopter personally and landing it where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted {{mook|s}}. Was he trying to silence specific witnesses? Eliminate evidence that only he knows about? Rescue his [[TheMole Mole]] Who knows.

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small squad on a helicopter personally and landing it where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted {{mook|s}}. Was he trying to silence witnesses? Eliminate evidence? Who knows.

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to directly intervene]], leading a small squad on a helicopter personally and landing it where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted [[Mooks mook]].

* ThirdActStupidity/ VillainBall: The Warden has been successfully keeping an island full of prisoners secret and playing them against each other for years. It's only when there is a large explosion in the more peaceful prisoners' camp that he [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou]] decides to directly intervene, leading a small squad on a helicopter personally and landing it where [[spoiler: he and his helicopter can be captured and left to the mercies of the more violent prisoners]]. It's ambiguous on what he was trying to accomplish with this. One helicopter is not going to restore order on an already chaotic island, and there's nothing that he could do that he couldn't have left to an expendable and trusted [[Mooks mook]].

** Stephano, the crossbow-carrying, cowboy-hat wearing head scavenger who keeps trying to buy Robbins’ boots.

** Dysart, for being a dry GadegeeterGenius who turns out to be TheAtoner for his past as a bomb maker.