![]() Escape Plan is more of an intellectual sleuthing caper than an outright action movie, and its uneventful stateside theatrical run didn't result in it leaving the kind of impression that might have been expected on its two stars' careers as a latter-day entry in Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger's action movie stardom. Escape Plan also takes quite a few twists and turns in its story, from the location of the Tomb itself to the truth behind Rottmeyer's imprisonment in it. ![]() Of course, Stallone and Schwarzenegger's first proper team-up is what audiences are on-board for, and not as explosively bombastic as their Expendables adventures, the two have clear fun as frenemies forced to band together. As Breslin puts together his plot to escape, he acquires an ally in his fellow inmate Emil Rottmeyer, played by Stallone's action movie contemporary Arnold Schwarzenegger, an associate of mysterious outside Good Samaritan Victor Mannheim.Įscape Plan plays like a reverse-heist movie and actually keeps its action scenes relatively tempered, but they still deliver when they hit. ![]() Stallone's security expert Ray Breslin finds himself facing a challenge in breaking out of the world's notoriously inescapable prison "The Tomb" (which was the film's working title), overseen by the ruthless warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel). While it arrived too late into their careers to strike while the iron was hot, Escape Plan at least brought them together in a generally entertaining prison break-out. Escape Plan was the action movie dream team of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger that audiences had yearned for since their Terminator and Rambo days. ![]()
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