Escape Plan (2013)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 51
As much fun as it is to see Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up onscreen, Escape Plan fails to offer much more than a pale imitation of 1980s popcorn thrills.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 10
As much fun as it is to see Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up onscreen, Escape Plan fails to offer much more than a pale imitation of 1980s popcorn thrills.
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Movie Info
One of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. ESCAPE PLAN is the first pairing of action legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold
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Sylvester Stallone
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Arnold Schwarzenegge...
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Jim Caviezel
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Vincent D'Onofrio
Lester Clark -
Vinnie Jones
Drake -
Curtis Jackson
Hush -
Amy Ryan
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Sam Neill
Dr. Kyrie -
Faran Tahir
Javed -
Matt Gerald
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Caitriona Balfe
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Alec Rayme
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Christian Stokes
Babcock -
Graham Beckell
Brims -
Rodney Feaster
Front Gate Guard -
David Leitch
Second Lieutenant -
Lydia Hull
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Eric Salas
Screaming Prisoner -
Brian Oerly
Skinhead Prisoner -
Jeff Chase
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Matt Cook
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Michael Papajohn
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Dieter Rauter
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Jaylen Moore
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Stephen Livaudais
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All Critics (98) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (51)
Hafstrom tries to pretend his stars are about 40 and, for the most part, it works.
Top CriticEscape Plan is the newest vehicle for aging action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and, in this case, it's a lemon or possibly an Edsel.
Schwarzenegger misses no opportunity to be hilarious. How many actors can make you chuckle even when they're being waterboarded?
As Hollywood vehicles for aging action stars go, it's at least serviceable. Of course it's ridiculous, but what else would you expect?
A mildly amusing, if ultimately pointless prison-break thriller from Mikael Håfström.
All in all, "Escape Plan" does what it sets out to do.
The most surprising thing about this movie, outside of its length, is just how unsurprising it really is, especially regarding its tired climax.
'Escape Plan' may finally unite Schwarzenegger and Stallone in co-starring roles, but it hardly seems like this is the story that makes the wait worthwhile.
Stallone and Schwarzenwegger deliver the action, drama and most importantly humor in this escapist entertainment
There are some surprises in this modestly budgeted action film, but not many. This is more about the fun of watching these two experienced action stars work these roles, and this plot, to perfection.
It's regrettable that a movie that had built quite a bit of credibility stoops to such a hackneyed ending. But that's not enough to ruin the evening. This is an entertaining couple of hours.
This functional thumper generally gets the job done, plodding merrily, if unremarkably, through the generic set pieces, making a passable fist of well-worn material.
"One man was left to rot for three days" says Schwarzenegger of the brutal regime's treatment of a prisoner. The result, you think, would look something like Stallone.
Neither Stallone nor Schwarzenegger act - or recognize - their ages. Their enjoyment, even in such a cheesy production, is contagious.
Stallone continues on the comeback trail ... a brawny action thriller that benefits from decent CG effects and shrewd supporting turns by Schwarzenegger and, as the sadistic warden, Jim Caviezel.
I was shocked but this Sly/Arnold combo package flick is far more entertaining as an action film than you might expect. Thanks to a clever twist, it's actually a lot of fun.
Would that the rest of the film were as engaging as Schwarzenegger; instead, it's a routine programmer that's short on thrills but long on tedium.
In a glorious moment of unified defiance, Stallone and Schwarzenegger look directly at the camera and raise a middle finger at anyone assuming that time has run out on these two aging heavyweights.
There's a way to make this movie in a way that guarantees its genre excellence. And the primary strategy there involves a time machine back to 1988.
One of the most cockamamie premises in the history of movies.
Escape Plan is entertaining enough to keep it from being 'bad,' but there's so little different or interesting or truly engaging that it's not very good either.
Arnold. Stallone. Hitting. Guns. Catchphrases. If you want more, keep holding your breath; for me, this is guy-movie junkfood far more rib-stickingly satisfying than either Expendables or The Last Stand.
Fans might not mind that the idea of pairing Stallone and Schwarzenegger for the first time had more potential than is fulfilled here.
It's almost the team-up movie you wanted 25 years ago, kind of!
No geezer jokes for Rambo and the Terminator in this one.
Audience Reviews for Escape Plan
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Sly plays Ray Breslin, a professional break out artist who detects flaws in the country's maximum security prisons. He's double crossed and left to rot in a prison called The Tomb, where he meets Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger). The two unlikely pals quickly begin to plot their escape. It takes almost 90 minutes for this escape to take place, and it feels longer than that. Stallone and Arnold's one-liners also fall flat way too often. Not to mention the convoluted subplots and logic that begins to start sounding ludicrous even in "turn off your brain" mode. Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill, Amy Ryan, and 50 Cent are all underused.
But the big prison breakout scene in the last thirty minutes is hella fun. Arnold and Sly do what we paid to see them do and the big, burly, macho testosterone runs so high, it almost makes up for all the tedium that came before it. Almost.
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- Emil Rottmayer: You hit like a vegetarian.
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