The Escape Plan

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The Escape Plan

Ray Breslin is a man who has devoted his life to making prisons inescapable by going into a prison as an inmate and trying to see if he can break out. And he has done a good job so far. A woman who says she works for the CIA approaches Ray and says that a new maximum security prison where the worst criminals are to be incarcerated, is about to be launched. So she wants him to go and make sure no one can get out. He agrees. So they make the necessary preps but when Ray arrives at the prison, he discovers that someone doesn't want him to get out. He then tries to find a way out but he needs help. Another prisoner, Rottmeyer becomes friendly with him. And they decide to work together to get out.
Ray Breslin is a renowned specialist in prison breaking in high-security facilities. He owns a company with his partner Lester Clark and he works with his coworkers and friends Abigail and Hush. Breslin follows three basic rules to escape: to know the layout; observe the routine; and get internal or external support to the getaway. Then he delivers a report with the flaws in the system to his client. Breslin and his team are visited by the CIA agent Jessica Miller that offers five-million dollars to him to test a state-of-art facility. Breslin accepts the challenge but soon he learns that he was double-crossed. The cruel prison ward Hobbes gives special attention to Breslin, following the instructions of his client and uses his right arm Drake to break Breslin. But the inmate Rottmayer gets close to Breslin and helps him to find a way to escape and find who betrayed him. Will they be well succeeded in their intent?
This is a movie that had more or less escaped under my radar until I saw it mentioned in one of my news feeds as a Blu-ray giveaway a couple of days ago. Given that it had both Stallone and Schwarzenegger in it, it was really a must buy for me. The escape from prison plot theme is not exactly a new idea but must be considered a rather classical one. A lot of great books and movies have, if not been centered around that theme so at least had it as a major plot element. I would say that it is rather difficult to make a new movie on this theme these days without it feeling a bit stale. During my movie evening yesterday I was happy to find that this one succeeds quite well in not feeling stale. It also succeeds very well in pairing together Stallone and Schwarzenegger without making it deteriorate into some action hero parody. The basic plot is in one sense the classical hero gets framed, thrown into jail and has to escape. In another sense it is slightly unconventional in that our hero is not only an escape artist, or rather an escape specialist, but a legal one at that. Both Stallone and Schwarzenegger are doing a good job of their roles. We all know that these two actors are not exactly Shakespeare-material and is not really competing for any acting Oscars but they do deliver solid performance as male, though-guy, heroes. The bad guy at the prison is not too bad, in terms of performance, either. The one person I felt was a bit meh was the guy who set Breslin up. I also think they could have made more of a show in nailing that bastard in the end. Not that he did not get what he deserved but I missed a "I'm back" moment with a confrontation between Breslin and him. On the whole a quite enjoyable movie even though the prison break theme is not one of my favorite ones. Oh, and as usual Rotten Tomatoes "official" rating is pure nonsense. Due to their idiotic rating mechanism they flag it as rotten which it most certainly is not.
I saw "Escape Plan", starring Sylvester Stallone-The Expendables movies, The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Arnold Schwarzenegger-The Expendables movies, True Lies; Vincent D'Onofrio-Law & Order:Criminal Intent-t.v., Men in Black and Jim Caviezel-Person of Interest-t.v., G.I.Jane. This is a good action movie with a team up of two 1980's icons, Sylvester & Arnold. Sylvester plays a prison security expert that goes into prisons and then escapes, pointing out their weaknesses to whomever has hired him. He is so good, he even wrote a book on his experiences and charges large fees for his services. Along comes a new client that wants him to test a new super secret prison that is run by the C.I.A., called 'The Tomb'. Vincent plays Sylvester's business partner that handles the negotiations and Jim plays the warden. After Sylvester gets into the prison, he meets Arnold, a fellow prisoner that wants out in the escape, in exchange for helping Sylvester with anything he might need. The only problem is that Jim has read Sylvester's book and fortified his prison, accordingly. There are several actors you should recognize in smaller parts, such as Sylvester's computer expert and the doctor in the prison. It's rated "R" for violence and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 56 minutes. I really enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.
Mercifully free of tongue-in-cheek meta-humor, Escape Plan is a likably lunkheaded meat-and-potatoes brawler that never pretends to be more sophisticated than it is.
Very little, they used the wrong kind of screws in the solitary cells. Since the prison guards are humans, a routine could be figured out from their behaviors. Secondly, since doctors are known to have oath to help their patients, the prison doctor could be a helpful inside man. And since the warden is human too, no matter how smart he is, he could still be fooled. Ray is hired by a CIA lawyer to enter The Tomb as a prisoner, in order to test its security by attempting to break out. However, the lawyer's true motivation is that her father, Manheim, is a prisoner in The Tomb, who she wants to be broken out of the prison with Ray's assistance a5c7b9f00b

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