ESCAPE PLAN

Escape Plan is the newest action vehicle for aging action icons Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. This movie has the heart of a classic action movie which I think is about two decades late. I think that it is a shame this movie wasn't made back in the 80's. Escape plan is everything Stallone and Schwarzenegger symbolized back in those glory days. The whole movie premise is boiled down to a simple good guy versus bad guys action flick. It twists this idea around a bit with the bad guy being the warden and the good guys being the prisoners, except for Stallone.


Stallone is actually a professional prison escape artist. As Seek.com has informed us, there is actually a super specific job out there for all of as. And for Breslin (Stallone), that job is spending his working days locked in a prison with all assortment of bad guys. He's made a rather tremendous living from doing so.

When the CIA offer a ridiculous amount of money to Breslin to escape from the high-tech prison built to hold the worst of the worst, it doesn't take much convincing for Breslin’s ass to be hauled off to the undisclosed super-prison 'The Tomb'.



Unfortunately, things don't go quite to plan and Breslin is left to rot. This where he makes muscle buddies with Schwarzenegger, a man with some important knowledge about some other dude. Sure there's some importance to Schwarzenegger’s character, but really he is just there to ham up the scenery and play ultimate 80's team up buddy to Stallone. With their knowledge combined they'll thwart the evil warden and escape the prison.


Obviously if you've ever seen one of Arnie’s or Stallone’s movies you'll totally know what to expect. Lots of one liners, plenty of unnecessary action and a semi-coherent story that links it all together. I enjoyed it. That's mostly due to neither Stallone or Schwarzenegger acting or recognizing their ages. They are clearly enjoying themselves is such a cheesy production that it's kind of infectious. Schwarzenegger never misses an opportunity to be hilarious. He cemented himself as a legend when he made me laugh while he was being tortured. I mean, how many other actors can make you laugh while they are being waterboarded ?


The support cast are all decent, but Jim Caviezel really does steal the show as the evil warden. Escape Plan may be a couple of decades late, but Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Caviezel don’t let that stop them. I highly suggest getting some friends over and getting drunk while watching this throwback to the golden action days of the 80's.


3 out of 5 aging action waffles.