The Blabbering Inferno: ESCAPE PLAN. REVIEWED.

Escape Plan (2013)

Rating- 15

Running Time- 1 hour 55 minutes

Directed by- Mikael Hafstrom

Written by- Miles Chapman and Jason Keller

What do you get when you take Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and put them in a film together about a prison break? Exactly what you expect. Is that a bad thing? Not at all.

The film takes a little while to get its legs as it tries to set up a story that is a little bit too complicated for what the film, and its audience, requires. But once Stallone eventually partners up with Schwarzenegger the film becomes the fun, action filled, cheesy line producing film that it was always going to be. And in that respect it doesn’t disappoint. In fact it doesn’t disappoint in any respect.

For what it is the film is close to perfection. It delivers everything you want from a Stallone/Schwarzenegger movie. It’s action-packed, funny and convenient: a perfect film to watch with a group of friends. Its only downfall is the fact that they keep trying to shoehorn a storyline in that no one really cares about. This results in the ending scene making little sense, an insignificant factor considering that the dialogue in that scene makes it hilariously entertaining regardless.

Overall, the film succeeds in entertaining its audience and so it is hard to fault it, and I wouldn’t want to. So, while it isn’t going to rock the world of cinema, it is a very good film.