Variety
Mercifully free of tongue-in-cheek meta-humor... a likably lunkheaded meat-and-potatoes brawler that never pretends to be more sophisticated than it is.
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Escape Plan
Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger prison escape thriller. Ray Breslin (Stallone), a prison security specialist and the designer of the world’s most secure penitentiary, finds himself incarcerated in his own complex facility after being sentenced for a crime he didn’t commit. With the help of a fellow inmate (Schwarzenegger), Ray plans to escape the fortress he built to be escape-proof while evading the ruthless warden (Jim Caviezel) and a corrupt security guard (Vinnie Jones).
2013Rating: R16, Violence and offensive language115 minsUSA
ActionThriller
- Director:
- Mikael Håfström ('1408', 'The Rite', 'Shanghai')
- Writer:
- Miles ChapmanJason Keller
- Cast:
- Sylvester StalloneArnold SchwarzeneggerJim CaviezelVincent D'OnofrioVinnie JonesSam Neill50 CentAmy Ryan
Escape Plan / Reviews
Total Film
A highly enjoyable slice of in-one-eye, out-the-other nonsense. It may coast on the charisma of its leads at times, and it's hardly deep, but there's a Friday night to be had.
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The Guardian
Decidedly grey pulp, never quite distinctive enough to merit anything more than a tardy, generally unmemorable DVD viewing.
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The Dissolve
They're self-assured, self-aware icons having fun in the middle of an unapologetically dumb, problematically pokey movie.
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Hollywood Reporter
They just don't make 'em like this anymore, and it's a good thing, too.
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Empire Magazine
For a long stretch of the second act the film feels like doing a long stretch, but Schwarzenegger’s having a ball as Stallone goes through the motions.
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