No Exit--My take on the movie with spoilers!

 PLOT SUMMARY: During a blizzard, Darby stops at a rest stop and finds a van with a child tied up inside. She realizes someone in the rest stop is the kidnapper.

We live in a world and a time where we think twice before trusting anyone. Family, still deserves some trust. Strangers...really?

Yet, when we venture out into the world, don't we find ourselves tempted to just let go and trust someone. After all, not everyone could be unworthy of trust, right? There has to be someone whom we can trust to show us the right way.

Who knows? A stranger could be your next best friend.

Then again, that one stranger you trusted could be the one who betrays you.

NO EXIT Movie Plot

Darby is at rehab, rolling her eyes at other patients as they talk about their struggle and subsequent victory over their addictions through analogies.

Darby calls out on a patient giving the same speech again after a relapse. The doctor is about to advise her when Darby is called away. It's her sister Devon who informs her that her mother is in the hospital. She tries to call her mother but is forbidden to do so by the doctor.

Growing frustrated, Darby seeks the patient she was riling and blackmails her into giving up her phone. Darby calls her sister but is told vehemently to not come to the hospital.

Darby is determined to go nevertheless and escapes from the hospital and hijacks a car to drive to Salt Lake City to see her mother.

On the way, she's stopped by the Corporal who tells her to either drive around or stop at the rest stop as the storm is upon them.

Darby chooses to wait at the rest stop. Once there, she gets a message from her sister telling her that her presence at the hospital will only make their mother's condition worse.

After that, and for the rest of the movie, the phone gets no cell service.

Darby enters the rest stop and finds one man sleeping by the window, another sitting in the corner and a couple who looks to be elder to her.

After spending some time being bored and not being able to make calls, she sits down with the couple who introduce themselves as Ed and Sandi. They get talking and include the introvert guy too who introduces himself as Lars.

They talk for a bit and Darby goes out again to try to make a call, only this time she hears a cry for help. After looking all around, she finds a van with a Nevada license plate. Inside is a girl tied up in the back.

Darby freaks out and tries to help her when she spots Ed outside. Darby has no idea who the van belongs to and suspects him.

To ascertain whose van it is, she finds the opportunity when Lars suggests they play bullshit, a card game.

While they play, Sandi makes an offhand remark about gambling after which Ed gets uncomfortable.  The guy who was sleeping is up and introduces himself as Ash.

The game is in process and Darby tries to squeeze information from the suspects.  One by one they reveal where they are from and where they are going. When it is Lars' turn, he's distracted, completely involved in the game and agitated that he's losing the game he suggested to everybody.

Soon enough he reveals that he's the one from Nevada. Darby goes to the bathroom and finds a hole there through which she ventures outside. She manages to break into the van and is in the process of untying the girl when Lars pops in and starts talking to the girl, revealing her name to be Jay.

Darby hides and misses her chance to rescue the girl. She goes inside and Ash gets curious about what she's up to. Now that she knows Lars is the kidnapper, Darby thinks she can trust the rest of the people. She tells Ash about Darby who agrees to help her. When Lars enters, Darby and Ash pretend to make out. Lars leaves awkwardly.

Darby goes out to try and save Jay again. She manages to remove the tape from her mouth. Jay sits up and asks about what happened to the two men. Darby is shocked, not having considered that Lars, who appears obviously unhinged, could have had help.

She then finds both Ash and Lars outside, talking in conspiratorial tones.  Darby tries to make a run for it but is caught and threatened. She is told to keep her mouth shut in front of Ed and Sandi.

Meanwhile Jay has managed to cut through the tape around her wrists and free herself. She gets out of the van and is immediately spotted.

Darby makes an excuse to go to the bathroom where she and Ash fight. In the struggle and while he's strangling her, Darby takes his keys.

Lars tries to find Jay but comes back and informs Ash that she took the hiking trail and that she could only be found by one person...Darby.

The scene seems farfetched considering there was no need to keep Darby on except for her to become the final girl. Ash and  Lars had kidnapped Jay before and could have looked for her again. Not that Darby should have been attacked, but there could have been another reason to make her stay on in the movie.

Anyway, Darby is forcefully led outside and made to call for Jay. Ash and Lars reveal they are delivering the girl to Uncle Kenny and it is insinuated that he runs a human trafficking ring.

Darby manages to outwit the kidnappers by blinding them with a flashlight and runs. Ash removes his gun and shoots but Darby is safe. Sandi and Ed are alerted and try to figure out where the sound came from.

Ed was an ex Marine and so was Darby's father and so he is concerned for Darby.

Outside, Jay has made it to the rest stop but collapses. Darby too makes it and tells Sandi and Ed about the kidnappers. They immediately lock the doors and windows.

Ash and Lars demand they return the girl. Darby remembers that Jay is wearing a medical bracelet that shows she has Addison's disease. If she gets too excited, the rush of adrenaline could harm her. Darby thinks they have the medicine and Ed asks for it. When Darby reveals she has the car keys, Ed thinks they have leverage.

Ash and Lars think they are losing and so begin to douse the rest stop with gasoline.

NO EXIT Ending Explained with Spoilers!  

The drama multiplies when Jay wakes up and calls Sandi by her name. Uh oh, turns out Sandi was involved too.

It is revealed that Sandi was Jay's maid and unhappy because the girl was a brat and would try to humiliate Sandi by making her dance and then record it. Sandi thought to retaliate by having her kidnapped and then getting a ransom. She needed the money because Ed lost most of their savings when he gambled.

Sandi lets Ash and Lars in while Ed tells his wife he had a plan to get back their savings. But he doesn't tell her what the plan was and Sandi is not reassured.

Ash wants the keys and tries to force Darby to give it up. She also tells Sandi that her aides were going to sell the girl to Uncle Kenny. Sandi did not know that part of the plan. She makes a fuss, Darby doesn't hand over the keys, the kidnappers have had enough and so Ash shoots Ed.

Sandi is beside herself and is sobbing when she is shot as well. Darby is shoved against the wall and Ash then uses a nail gun to staple her to the wall.

Ash then takes Darby's phone to delete the messages she was sending to the police alongside the photo of the license plate of their van. But just then he sees a message from Devon. Darby's mother has passed away.

Darby is depressed but is given no time to mourn as Ash announces that unfortunately the message to the police had gone through and now the corporal was on his way.

Ash demands the keys or he would hurt Jay. Darby tells him and Ash hands over his gun to Lars and tells him to mind them. He could have easily sent Lars instead, to look for the keys considering his brother, yes they are brothers, was a nervous wreck.

But anyway, Jay is told to turn off the lights,  Darby snorts the drugs she had taken from the car she stole and then manages to pull herself from the wall.

In the chaos, Ash comes to shoot Darby again with the nail gun when Darby ducks and the nail penetrates into Lars' forehead. He dies.

Darby and Jay make a run for it outside but Ash has punctured the car  which causes Darby to crash it.  Ash then sets fire to the rest stop so the girls cannot hide.

The Corporal arrives at the wrong time which is when Darby manages to leave the wrecked car and shoot Ash. He assumes Darby is a criminal and shoots her. He is about to assist Ash when he takes Darby's gun and shoots the Corporal.

The Corporal doesn't get to learn that he screwed up big when he shot the wrong person. Ash tries to kill Darby again who manages to get a screwdriver and plunge it into Ash's neck. He bleeds out and collapses over Darby.

She pushes him away and then uses the Corporal's radio to call for help. When the operator asks for additional details, Darby puts down the radio and stares up at the sky.

Fortunately the police are able to track her down and help her. Darby did have another breath to give more details but she probably wanted to stare at the sky instead.

Some time later, Darby is at rehab and there's a drawing Jay apparently made and sent her. Darby is taking things more seriously now. She is visited by Devon, her sister.

Things are finally getting fixed for Darby.

The end.

The movie had some thrilling moments and the twists keep coming although they are highly predictable. Still, it is an interesting enough movie to pass the time.

Scare scale: 2.5/5