Saturday, October 19, 2013

Escape Plan - A well executed one!

Escape Plan is a man's movie.  It's full of fist fights, gunfire, Stallone, and Arnold.  I'm not a man, but I loved it!  I think everyone in the theater did.  Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are definitely getting old, but they don't seem to let that stop them, and in this movie, you won't really care.

Escape Plan is a clever movie about a clever man named Ray Breslin, played by Stallone, who breaks out of prisons for a living in an effort to help these prisons fix these cracks in their security.  He is hired by the FBI to attempt to break out of a private prison that is off the radar and holds the deadliest of the deadliest.  While inside, Breslin begins to realize there is more to the story, and with the help of Rottamayer, Arnold's character, they devise an escape plan.

Stallone's face looks like his figure at the wax museum and Arnold looks slightly dashing with grey hair, but with the age and many years of acting you would think that both's skills as actors would have improved, but to no avail.  That's ok; the speed at which this movie moves, you really won't mind just like you weren't bothered when you saw Terminator 50, Rocky 100, or Rambo 3000.

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Jim "Jesus" Caviezel, and Sam "The Cardinal" Neil will have to be the eye candy and the best actors on the screen.  Yes, I'm putting Fitty in the field of one of the better actors in the movie.  As soon as he can fully open his mouth, he'll be a damn fine actor.  Jim plays Warden Hobbs, and him as a bad guys is very interesting and intriguing.  He plays a nasty evil cunning villain, and I liked it!  I typically do have a thing for the bad guy.

Look, is this a cinematic work of art?  No, but will you be entertained?  Heck yeah!  Escape Plan played well on the things we like about an action movie, and the things we expect to see in a Stallone and Schwarzenegger film.  People fight, guns shoot, there's blood, and Arnold says something classic.  This movie was well executed, even if the escape plan was not.  Go see it.  You'll enjoy it!!!

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