Escape Plan

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Escape Plan

R,

2013,

1h 55m,

Action/

Mystery & Thriller

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55%

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55%

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Tough and chiseled Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) knows how to infiltrate a prison -- and bust out of one. His latest job leads to a double-cross, leaving him stuck in a high-tech facility with the worst that society has to offer. Luckily for Ray, he meets Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an inmate who secretly helps him hatch a plot to win his freedom. Only sadistic warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel) stands in the way of the two men successfully making it out alive.

Critics Consensus

As much fun as it is to see Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up onscreen, Escape Plan fails to offer much more than a pale imitation of 1980s popcorn thrills.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

Sep 6, 2017

3/5

As implausible macho nonsense goes, it's surprisingly good.

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Louis Black

Austin Chronicle

Oct 25, 2013

1.5/5

The most surprising thing about this movie, outside of its length, is just how unsurprising it really is, especially regarding its tired climax.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

Oct 21, 2013

This functional thumper generally gets the job done, plodding merrily, if unremarkably, through the generic set pieces, making a passable fist of well-worn material.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

Aug 15, 2024

B

Overall, it's fun, it's cheesy, it's chaotic and it's good. You gotta love these guys together.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Aug 22, 2022

2.5/4

After the finale degrades into a violent shootout and leaves us dissatisfied, not even solid portrayals by Stallone and Schwarzenegger make Escape Plan anything beyond a very, very guilty piece of actionized entertainment.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 20, 2022

2.5/5

You’ll have to accept its absurdity and understand that there are several questions you’ll never get sufficient answers for.

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Abraham W

Apr 27, 2019

Just an all around awesome movie! I don't care what some others may say about this movie, it was simply fantasic with the just right amount added twist that the main plot needed. It was like a mix of Rambo with the expendables! Just fantastic!

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Draco R

Mar 19, 2019

This film is stupid and smart at the same time.

Mar 6, 2019

Stallone and Schwarzenegger is ok, but the story is si so, and to little bang bang action for my taste, but is great to see these icons together

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Poe L

Feb 24, 2019

It's amazing how long it took to get Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in a film together but it was worth the wait. While it's not the best action movie out there it is fun seeing The Terminator and Rambo headlining a film together. A decent premise with good action and the script is not bad either. The movie would've been a lot bigger if it had come out in the 80's and originally Face/Off was written for them but that movie needed the charismatic acting that John Travolta and Nicolas Cage brought to it and with Escape Plan it was the perfect script for them and there was no need to be charismatic here.

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Finn W

Feb 16, 2019

Stallone and Arnie obviously got pally after their Expendables films so here's yet another tough man movie that pits them as allies, fighting a band of hardened prison wardens that use any technique to prevent their inmates from escaping their hidden confinement. Only problem is, these inmates are cons who's careers have been derived from testing the security of jails, so they know every trick in the book with regards to foiling the system. It's a decent movie that tries to make itself more hip with the inclusion of 50 'Fiddy' Cent.

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Finn S

Jan 9, 2019

ESCAPE PLAN stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the two attempt to escape a high-security, black-site prison facility that technically doesn't exist. Filled with suspense that makes you sweat, a tense premise and a fun idea carried out until the end, ESCAPE PLAN makes for a satisfying movie.

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Mikael Håfström

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Sylvester Stallone

Ray Breslin

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Emil Rottmayer

Jim Caviezel

Willard Hobbes

50 Cent

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Sam Neill

Dr. Kyrie

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Synopsis

Tough and chiseled Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) knows how to infiltrate a prison -- and bust out of one. His latest job leads to a double-cross, leaving him stuck in a high-tech facility with the worst that society has to offer. Luckily for Ray, he meets Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an inmate who secretly helps him hatch a plot to win his freedom. Only sadistic warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel) stands in the way of the two men successfully making it out alive.

Director: Mikael Håfström
Producer: Mark Canton, Randall Emmett, Remington Chase, Robbie Brenner, Kevin King Templeton
Screenwriter: Miles Chapman, Jason Keller
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Production Co: Gosdom Entertainment, Envision Entertainment, Emmett/Furla Films, Mark Canton, Atmosphere Entertainment MM LLC, Boies/Shiller Films
Rating: R (Violence|Language Throughout)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 18, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $25.1M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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