#ESCAPE PLAN MOVIE#

A former criminal prosecutor turned prison security expert, Breslin is a past master at escaping from the most foolproof prisons. Stallone reprises his role as Ray Breslin. The $55 million 'Escape Plan' coughed up $25 million domestically but generated $112-million overseas! Reportedly, the lucrative Chinese box office prompted Summit Entertainment to slap together back-to-back sequels. Stallone and Schwarzenegger contended with the smart but ruthless Warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel of CBS-TV's 'Person of Interest'), who kept close tabs on their shenanigans. The last-minute revelation about the prison's mysterious whereabouts capped this imaginative cat & mouse suspense saga. In Swedish director Mikael Håfström's 'Escape Plan' (2013), Arnold Schwarzenegger co-starred with Stallone, and these two legends collaborated to break out of an impregnable black site prison. The rest isn't particularly worth bothering with. Better are Dave Bautista and Stallone himself, both of whom get a brutal fight to themselves, although you have to wait towards the end to view them. While I was pleased to see Zhang Jin in the cast (MASTER Z: IP MAN LEGACY being a recent favourite of mine), his fight scenes, although hard-hitting, are slightly spoilt by dodgy editing which detracts from the choreography. A bunch of once-famous faces are included for no real reason, and others like 50 Cent barely register. The plot of this one is entirely muddled, with an evil kidnapper hiding out in the dark and dingy confines of an old prison and our heroes having to go in an rescue their loved ones. The prominent presence of Stallone on the cover is misleading too, because he tends to have little screen time and ends up a supporting actor in his (supposed) own movie. The first time was a proper fun action movie, light and forgettable, whereas these follow-ups are B-movie cash-ins, nothing more. As such, my rating for it is a mere three out of ten stars.ĮSCAPE PLAN 3 is of much the same quality as part two in the series, which is to say that it's not very good.

#ESCAPE PLAN MOVIE#

This 2019 movie wasn't really worth the time or money invested into it.

By skipping out on watching 'Escape Plan: The Extractors' you will not be missing anything vital to the franchise. The entire movie just felt like a copy/paste job quickly put together for the sake of cashing in on the franchise before it is too late. 'Escape Plan: The Extractors' not only lacked a proper storyline, it also lacked character motivation and the ability to engage the audience. It was actually Devon Sawa whom carried the movie here with his performance, as he was the one that had the most screen time, the most energy and the most on-screen presence, whereas the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista and Jin Zhang were just autopiloting their way through this movie at the hands of director John Herzfeld. Not one of his best movies, not even by a longshot.

Yet, I managed to endure the ordeal, as this is a Sylvester Stallone movie after all. There is no adrenaline kicks throughout the movie, and it quickly settled into a boring trot and never got out of that mundane gutter. Just what were writers Miles Chapman and John Herzfeld thinking here? How did this script actually make it to become a movie? The movie is monotonous, and that is actually putting it mildly. The storyline in 'Escape Plan: The Extractors' was just pointless, and it even seemed that none of the cast actually bought into the plot, script and storyline here either. Whereas the 2013 movie 'Escape Plan' was actually good, the 2018 sequel 'Escape Plan 2: Hades' and now the 2019 'Escape Plan: The Extractors' have been abysmal, to put it bluntly. They should have stopped after the first movie.

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