It’s a very standard action film, with little or no thought needed to enjoy. And there’s nothing wrong with that at all.Was there any greater dream of the 80s action movie fan than seeing Arnie and Sly team up in the same movie? Aside from perhaps appearing in an Arnie or Sly movie yourself, the answer is no. But if you can turn your mind off for a little while to sit back and watch your two favorite movie badasses together then you should be all right. Over all, the movie isn’t bad, just not very good. And if the cheers in the theater when they did this are any indication, they both still “got it” in some aspect. They both get to do what they each do best: Look badass and blow everything up. Stallone gets to fight a big guy with his fists and Arnold gets a really big gun. They each have their own “big action” moments. Most of the big action takes place towards the end when Stallone and Schwarzenegger are making their big break. A few fight scenes here and there, which are good, but with the two big guns staring in this, there should have been a little more. It feels like most of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor sadly.įor an action flick, there isn’t much. It feels like he is also being held against his will, but with lack of time and what not, the movie never explores it. He seems to know more than what he should, but can’t talk about it. He’s kind of a mystery character for the movie. It would have been nice to have more of Neil’s doctor character. Vincent D’Onofrio and Sam Neil have cameos and are great in them. Feels like a wasted opportunity for the movie. 50 Cent is pretty funny, and is a ticking time bomb under his coolness, but because of his lack of character, he is so under developed we never get to see him become the badass he talks about being. Ryan has little to do, which is a waste of a talented actress. Both are good and come off as caring and will doing anything to find Stallone. Playing the parts of Stallone’s team who are out looking for him after his disappearance is Amy Ryan and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Being a former footballer, he knows how to look and be tough, so why try to make him change? And Jones does his normal badass English footballer thing he is known for. It doesn’t take you out of the flick, but you are going to notice it for sure. Caviezel tries to have some sort of accent, which comes and goes throughout out the movie, not sure what he was trying to do there. Both play really good bad guys, are fun to watch, and seem to be having a good time playing bad. Keeping Schwarzenegger and Stallone in prison is the corrupt warden, Jim Caviezel, and his best goon, Vinnie Jones. It’s like hanging out with two old friends. They generally enjoy making funny jabs and jokes at each other’s expensive, and if anything else, that is fun to watch. They have a pretty strong friendship outside movies and it shows in this one. The snappy dialogue and playful interaction between Stallone and Arnold itself is fun, you can see these two guys know exactly what they’re making. Things are quickly mentioned but never really come back, nor are they important to the overall plot, which is rather simple: To break out of “The Tomb”. For an action movie, that’s pretty much par for the course, but here they feel forced and sloppy. The movie suffers under the weight of stereotypical characters and plenty of loose plot holes. Honestly as a fan of these two dudes, they deserved a better movie for them to be in where they team up and kick ass. If they weren’t in this, it would never have been made. It feels and comes off as a made for TV HBO/Showtime type movie that would have been a straight to DVD type film, but with the star power of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, it got a theater release. It sadly falls in the middle, which will borderline on forgettable by next week. The movie isn’t great, but it’s also not bad. Thus action, quick one-liners, and old man fighting ensue. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) to help devise a plan to escape the impossible prison they find themselves in. He is hired to test out the latest super prison nicknamed “The Tomb”. He likes breaking out of ultra-secret, high-tech facilities to see where the flaw is. We follow Ray Breslin (Stallone) who is one of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security. Remember when you wanted the most famous action stars in the world to star in a movie together, then it finally happened, and it was just ok? Well, here’s another example of a “just ok” movie staring the world’s favorite aging action stars: Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Escape Plan.
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