In Escape Plan, Stallone plays Breslin, a former Prosecutor turned Security consultant who breaks out of prisons to test their flaws.
Breslin is offered by the CIA a chance to test out a maximum security prison run by a shadow private undercover organisation that imprisons high level terrorist types.
Before you can say 'set-up' Breslin agrees for double his usual fee.
The rest of the film is essentially a bottle type of drama as i its contained within the Hi Tech interior prison environment that keeps the budget down.
Breslin finds out that he might be on his own in this prison with no chance of escape or being rescued. He might have been double crossed by his business partner (rather foreseeable) and to make things worse, Arnie is one of the inmates and is trying too hard to be his friend.
Jim Caviezel who previously has come across as a rather bland leading man, camps it up as Hobbes, the sadistic prison warden who does not care whether Breslin is innocent.
Which begs the question as to how many other inmates might be there for obscure reasons in this private consortium prison for the disappeared.
Sam Neill appears as a conflicted doctor who is there to provide minimal medical attention to the prisoners.
Fair play to Arnie and Sly for not going for a shoot em up, although that was already done in Expendables 2. It is a more thoughtful movie. There is some gun toting action at the end.
I would be the first to admit I did not understand what Arnie was doing in this type of prison although I sort of guessed his true identity.
You can imagine there would be Islamic terrorists housed in this Hi-tech prison, but then you also get white supremacists type, cartel gangsters and others who should be in a maximum security prison not housed in a prison for people who could no longer be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
We have Farhan Tahir playing a Muslim who helps Arnie and Sly but is he a terrorist or a cartel guy? If he is a cartel guy, he should not be in this prison, something the film never grapples with even though Tahir is the third hero of the film.
Plenty of plot holes in the film. No one inside the prison discovers that although they might be located deep down, they are actually in a ship and no amount of stabilizers can protect you from heavy seas or even the humming of the engines in such a big cargo ship.
Surely such as a ship would have to dock for supplies, change of crew and prison guards?
It is fun, maybe too long and has confusing plot elements.
Breslin is offered by the CIA a chance to test out a maximum security prison run by a shadow private undercover organisation that imprisons high level terrorist types.
Before you can say 'set-up' Breslin agrees for double his usual fee.
The rest of the film is essentially a bottle type of drama as i its contained within the Hi Tech interior prison environment that keeps the budget down.
Breslin finds out that he might be on his own in this prison with no chance of escape or being rescued. He might have been double crossed by his business partner (rather foreseeable) and to make things worse, Arnie is one of the inmates and is trying too hard to be his friend.
Jim Caviezel who previously has come across as a rather bland leading man, camps it up as Hobbes, the sadistic prison warden who does not care whether Breslin is innocent.
Which begs the question as to how many other inmates might be there for obscure reasons in this private consortium prison for the disappeared.
Sam Neill appears as a conflicted doctor who is there to provide minimal medical attention to the prisoners.
Fair play to Arnie and Sly for not going for a shoot em up, although that was already done in Expendables 2. It is a more thoughtful movie. There is some gun toting action at the end.
I would be the first to admit I did not understand what Arnie was doing in this type of prison although I sort of guessed his true identity.
You can imagine there would be Islamic terrorists housed in this Hi-tech prison, but then you also get white supremacists type, cartel gangsters and others who should be in a maximum security prison not housed in a prison for people who could no longer be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
We have Farhan Tahir playing a Muslim who helps Arnie and Sly but is he a terrorist or a cartel guy? If he is a cartel guy, he should not be in this prison, something the film never grapples with even though Tahir is the third hero of the film.
Plenty of plot holes in the film. No one inside the prison discovers that although they might be located deep down, they are actually in a ship and no amount of stabilizers can protect you from heavy seas or even the humming of the engines in such a big cargo ship.
Surely such as a ship would have to dock for supplies, change of crew and prison guards?
It is fun, maybe too long and has confusing plot elements.