Escape Plan (Stallone & Schwarzenegger)

Mr E

Arnie and Sly together again. Looks like great fun, but I think the trailer might give a little bit too much away.

IMDB Link - When a structural-security authority finds himself incarcerated in a prison he designed, he has to put his skills to escape and find out who framed him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmt89TXjYBI

Hande hoche!

Looks quite entertaining, if nothing else the pairing of Arnie and Sly. Will definitely see this in the cinema.

Duggy747

I laughed at the "Yoo heet like a vegetarian!"

I love prison movies so putting Sly + Arnie together in one had my interest straight away when I heard of it and it does look like good fun from the trailer.

Jumboman

Is Arnie playing the bad guy in this ?

FortuneChip

Haven't seen this posted anywhere yet.
Looks like a tangent spun from the first part of Face-Off.
Usual conspiracy lark etc, and another pension payment for Arnie & Sly, but being a fan of "Breakout" movies, I'd probably be keen enough to see it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd2gMg8YYEI

krudler

looks like an 80's throwback, high concept nonsense. yay Arnie's line delivery is godawful though.

JP Liz V1

Needs Kurt Russell :P as it reminds me of Tango and Cash

Hande hoche!

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Needs Kurt Russell :P as it reminds me of Tango and Cash

Well said. The should also stick him in the next Expendables movie.

MagicMarker

Saw a trailer for this on the TV. Looks good. Looks like Arnie has been touched up more in post production than a student of the Christian Brothers.

Duggy747

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Well said. The should also stick him in the next Expendables movie.

Stallone has tried but he keeps turning the movies down.

chuckliddell

if he designed it he should have no problem escaping it so

Duggy747

Duggy747 wrote: »

Stallone has tried but he keeps turning the movies down.

Russell was on something of a career break for the past few years which may explain why he's said no, to not just Stallone but a whole slew of other big roles. With The Art of the Steal, Fast and Furious 7 and Bone Tomahak coming out over the next year it's obvious that Russell is back acting and it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see him featuring in Expendables part 4, though that said, I'd much prefer him to give us one last Snake Plisken adventure, one preferably not written by either him or Carpenter.

bellinter

Read this on IMDB;

Most notable thing about escape plan is that Sam Neil gets to work alongside a couple of dinosaurs yet again.



Still can't wait to see it!

Soby

chuckliddell wrote: »

if he designed it he should have no problem escaping it so

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tunguska

It does look like fun and even though I know it'll be terrible, Im sold.

ricero

Saw it tonight and it was great fun

Daemos

chuckliddell wrote: »

if he designed it he should have no problem escaping it so

Been done before, can be done again

MJ23

Can't wait to see this. Arnie is the man.

LuckyLloyd

It's terrible, but it's still fun.

Banjaxed82

Arnold is so bad, I went a step beyond cringing.

Good fun. Makes no sense, but most Stallone films don't nowadays...or ever probably.

ricero

Your man playing hobbs the prison warden is the image of a young eric roberts I thought

Banjaxed82

ricero wrote: »

Your man playing hobbs the prison warden is the image of a young eric roberts I thought

To think he was playing Jesus Christ only 10 years ago.

KTRIC

Watched this last night and thought it was quite good. Not an Arnie classic but not his worst either.

krudler

Gotta admit I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, stupid fun. harks back to a high concept 80's/90's action film. Jim Caveziel looked like he was having a blast making it, and it's nicely full of swearing and violence unlike the watered down pg action movies today. Dumb as a bag of hammers but ticks along nicely and doesn't outstay it's welcome, would be a perfect lads in with beers Friday night film.

senordingdong

Looking forward to seeing this but, does Stallone work as director or producer aswel?

constitutionus

its alright.

it did have some nice twists in it and the lads take the piss out of each other in the script "you dont look that smart" etc so it had its fair share of funny moments

but its more one for the DVD with a few beers TBH.

guess its a 6/ 10.

not even a bad 6, its just not something ya desperatly need to see in the flicks.

Arghus

Saw this a few days ago. Somewhat ashamed to admit that I was looking forward to it quite a lot, I'm a huge fan of Schwarzenegger.
The bottom line is that if you are a die hard aficionado for the stars and the glory years of 80s action you will enjoy this. The plot is ludicrous, the dialogue cringe-worthy the performances suspect at best and the action is completely forgettable but having said all that there was still a lot of fun to be had in watching the two guys playing off one another.
It was more a movie of knowing winks than overtly eye rolling cheese. I still can'ttotally warm to Stallone, he's still a hypertrophied ego maniac after all these years. He can't let himself be portrayed as anything less than the best of the best, the smartest man in the room etc, etc. At least Schwarzenegger knows that in this case it's all about having a laugh. That unforgettable scene when he rants and raves in German,oh man. Also, who knew waterboarding Arnie would be comedy gold? I think Stallone comes off way worse overall in the movie. He's probably a slightly better actor than Arnold but Arnie has got something. A tremendously hilarious watchability.
Of the recent "geriactioner" films I thought this was the most solid since the first Expendables. The Last Stand and Bullet to The Head were big let downs and the non stop cheese fest that was Expendables 2 was one of the worst two hours I ever spent in the cinema. It's pretty low key action wise. A lot of blah, blah not so much bang bang. Probably just as well considering the ages involved.
A pity that it didn't really utilize it's supporting cast to it's full potential. Any movie where 50 Cent gets more to say than Sam Neil is just flat out crazy.

Chris_Heilong

Fairly good, I would not call it terrible at all, it was fun and not a CGI ridden mess like a lot of hollywood fodder of late.

DrumSteve

Must say I really enjoyed this. Arnie is hilarious in it!

Royale with Cheese

Not an amazing film by any stretch of the imagination, but as a fan of both actors I definitely enjoyed it. Highlights for me were

Arnie ranting in german. Arnie running to tha choppa and then picking up the machine gun and ploughing through everyone. Also during the Stallone - Vinnie Jones fight, at one point Stallone has Jones in some kind of headlock and is pummeling away on him. I'm pretty sure Jones just screams out Fück Off at this point. I don't know why but I found it hilarious.

Could have done with some more action as I enjoyed the last twenty minutes far more than the previous sixty odd

Mitch Connor

The end was hilarious

Arnie admits he is the reason Sly ended up in the prison, and could easily have died at several points - and they just laugh it off.

Hande hoche!

Very entertaining film. A bit of of a slowdown in the middle, but well worth a watch. Cinema was fairly packed when I went to see it.

Just out of a screening and I have to say that it was an absolute blast. It's one of those great action films that has a whole lot more going on that simply having things go boom. Considering that it's stars Stallone and Schwarzenegger I expected something completely off the hook with the two stars trying to top one another in a manner that would match the absurd and completely over the top ridiculousness of the plat. Instead we got a rather more serious and inspired film that dialed things back a notch and let the stars try a little acting.

It's no secret that Stallone is a great actor, anyone who disagrees would be advised to check out his work in First Blood, all the Rocky films and his career best performance in Copland where he not only held his own against DeNiro, Keitel and Liotta but acted them off the screen so it's no surprise that he manages to take a role as one dimensional as Ray Breslin and make it interesting. What's more surprising is just how good Schwarzenegger is, sure his delivery is a little one note but he's obviously having a lot of fun and his laid back performance impresses in a way that he's rarely done before. Arnie is well served by the script and has all the best one-liners, including the so cheesy it's brilliant "You hit like a vegetarian." The last time he's been so much fun to watch was way back in 1994 in James Cameron's True Lies. What's most enjoyable about the film is that the two stars have so much chemistry together that you'd almost be happy to spend 2 hours just watching them shoot the shit.

Good as the stars are, the film belongs to Jim Caviezel who once more takes a generic and somewhat uninteresting role and blows it out of the water. It's obvious that he is having the time of his life and it's a shame that he isn't getting more week as there are few actors who are just so much fun to watch on screen. He chews the scenery where necessary but rather than go all out his performance is rather reined in and all the more menacing for it. There's a cold, callous, clinicalness about his character that would have seen him been remembered as one of the great action villains, had the film been released in the 80s.

The rest of the cast don't have a whole lot to do, with the wonderful Amy Ryan given so little to do that she may as well have stayed at home. Alongside her the usually reliable Vincent D'Onofrio is equally wasted and in a number of screens is out acted by 50 Cent, who proves that The Frozen Ground was no fluke.

Escape Plan ends with something of a bang aswell as a number of nods to the stars past triumphs, though regrettably at no time does Arnie scream "Get to the choppa." What is most striking about he ending is that, while a hell of a lot of fun it's also the films least interesting element. The subdued, laid back early scenes are where the film truly impresses and while it never comes close to greatness, for a late night distraction Escape Plan is a lot of fun and shows just how poor action fare such as Taken 2 is.

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Deleted User wrote: »

It's no secret that Stallone is a great actor, anyone who disagrees would be advised to check out his work in First Blood, all the Rocky films and his career best performance in Copland where he not only held his own against DeNiro, Keitel and Liotta but acted them off the screen so it's no surprise that he manages to take a role as one dimensional as Ray Breslin and make it interesting.

Alrgiht Lad, don't lose the run of yourself now...

WHIP IT!

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Alrgiht Lad, don't lose the run of yourself now...

Stallone owns the film and there's not one scene where another cast member comes close to matching him. He gives a performance that pretty much any actor would kill for

Duggy747

When people think of Stallone, they think of his action fodder like Demolition Man or........eurgh, Judge Dredd.

He can very well act when he puts himself to it and Copland was definitely his peak in terms of him showcasing his ability. People assumed with him in a serious movie with Kietel or DeNiro that he would drag it down when he did the complete opposite.

Slydice

There's a sequel? :eek:

It doesn't look like it'll do great..

but it sounds like they have .. some?.. confidence in it because..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Plan_3

Development was first announced in April 2017, when Stallone said while filming Escape Plan 2 that a third installment in this franchise was on its way. In August 2017, casting was underway for extras and speaking roles.

Agent Coulson

To be fair Sly looks well for a man who will be 72 next month.

p to the e

Fodder for the Asian market by the looks of it.

Hector Savage

No Arnie .... I'm out ..

Mr E

Looks great.

"Bad to be back" :pac:

Dr Brown

Its going straight to blu ray/download.

Dr Brown

Agent Coulson wrote: »

To be fair Sly looks well for a man who will be 72 next month.

Stallone looks like hes aged at least 10 years since the last Escape Plan film.

Dr Brown

Dr Brown wrote: »

Stallone looks like hes aged at least 10 years since the last Escape Plan film.

To be fair it has been 5 years since that came out and he is a man in his 70s, doubt many around here will look that good when they're the same age.


Really looking forward to this, seen a couple of behind the scenes images and heard quite a bit from the set from someone who was very involved in this getting made and it is shaping up well. Not expecting it to set the world on fire but it should be a solid action film and surprised that it is not getting a theatrical release.

TerrorFirmer

I'll have to re-watch Escape Plan first. For some reason despite having watched it at the time, I can't remember anything about it. Think I went to see Sabatogue around the same time (or even after) and remember that well enough.

Dr Brown

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I'll have to re-watch Escape Plan first. For some reason despite having watched it at the time, I can't remember anything about it. Think I went to see Sabatogue around the same time (or even after) and remember that well enough.

Escape plan wasn't very good its only selling point was that it had Arnie and Stallone together in the lead roles.

_Kaiser_

Hector Savage wrote: »

No Arnie .... I'm out ..

Yea, seems a bit pointless making a sequel without the main point of the first one - him and Arnie together.

As for the trailer.. Solid meh unfortunately. Looks like another generic modern actioner. Sly should really stick to "event" movies like the first film, or Rocky/Rambo at this stage

Agent Coulson

Escape Plan 2 is a jumbled mess and very hard to watch and no fun at all compared to the first one.

Hande hoche!

They should have gone with Tango & Cash 2 instead.