Escape Plan

2013 • 115 minutes

About this movie

Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultrasecret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb". But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he 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. 2013 Summit Entertainment, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

Sly and Arnie. Together at last! It's actually a fairly decent action flick. Tarnished for me however by some right-wing evangelical-Christian anti-Muslim propaganda that finds its way into the plot. Not that fact that there are Muslims 'terrorists' in the prison. No. One of them helps the others escape. The problem is when he needs an excuse to go up onto the deck of the ship as part of this 'escape plan'. He tells them he wants to go up on deck 'to SEE his god' when he prays to him. They even show a shot of the moon when he's on deck. This stems from a propaganda some right-wing evangelical-Christians spread that Muslims worship the moon (probably to make Islam seem even more foreign to them rather than being a true Abrahamic faith). That Allah is a moon-god. Which is false as Muslims worship the creator of everything including the moon. Now spreading this propaganda in a big movie like this, kinda spoils the whole thing.

While Sly and Arnie play similar roles as you're used to, the plot is novel and the support acting is close enough to good to make this flick entirely watchable. Once you get past Vinnie Jones' skeletal modern physique, this movie ticks all the boxes of a modern action thriller. I honestly was rapt when I saw glimmers of true acting from Arnie.

Its a nice film but gets kinda boring if you watch it again, trust me I fell asleep atound the start of the 2nd time watching it. Overall really action packed and you get gripped to it around the start, your always gonna be like whats next because of the fights.