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Escape to the Cove
USA 2021
produced by Garrett Barghash, Phillip Cook, Robert Enriquez, Julie Nunis (executive) for Red Baron Films
directed by Robert Enriquez
starring Garrett Barghash, Robert Enriquez, Phillip Cook, Mike Markoff, Dana Kippel, Elisa Janelle Alpizar, Eric Roberts, Shane Fraser, Tony Messenger, Antuone Torbert, Nikelola Balogun, Julie Nunis
written by Robert Enriquez, music by Ralf Lichtenberg
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A pandemic has ravaged the earth and turned the infected into homicidal
zombies. Only a few seem to be immune, but always live in fear of being
attacked by the infected. One of them is Cairo (Garrett Barghash), who
seems to have survived rather by mistake than design, as his survival
skills are limited and he shows a dangerous carelessness - and is only
just saved from a zombie attack by Olivia (Dana Kippel), who takes him
under her wing, teaches him a thing or two about survival, and tells him
about the fabled Cove, where the healthy live without fear of being
attacked, and how much she wants to get there - only problem, she doesn't
know where the Cove is. Eventually, Cairo and Olivia run into Luther (Mike
Markoff) and his gang of marauders, who clearly want to have their way
with Olivia but kill her when she doesn't put out. Cairo is only just
saved by Solomon (Robert Enriquez), an ex-cop, who together with his
friend Samuel (Phillip Cook) still patrol the harbour, even if law and
order have long been abandoned by everybody else. Cairo begs Solomon to
take him on, because he has by now realized he hasn't got what it takes to
survive, but Solomon refuses, as he doesn't want another mouth to feed -
but he gets Cairo abode with Samuel. Now Solomon knows where the Cove is,
but is hesitant to go there as he'd run into his estranged daughter (Elisa
Janelle Alpizar). He has a change of heart though when Luther and gang
kill Samuel, and he even agrees to let Cairo tag along. What he doesn't
know though, Luther has only spared Cairo's life so he can spy on Solomon
and get the location of the Cove out of him, to then kill him. So
Solomon's big heart might actually be his downfall ... A nice
piece of post-apocalyptic cinema that doesn't so much focus on spectacle
(even if it does have its violent bits) but more on the melancholic side
of things, and thus is carried by a moody directorial effort that makes
the most of its unusual main location, a desolate marina, while the cast
fittingly doesn't (visually) fit the classic image of heroism. And exactly
this rather unusual approach makes Escape to the Cove a good watch
indeed.
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