Directed by : Mikael Hafstrom
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1211956/
Sylvester's magic in a thriller that could had been much better.
Read at your own risk, the post is full of spoilers.
Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) works for a authority dealing with structural security. He gets himself set into prisons, and finds ways of getting out just to help those prisons know where they lack. A new case comes to them, where Breslin slightly hesistant accepts it only to find it later that he's been set up in a prison far away from his place with almost no outside help possible. Now, Breslin has to use all his life experience to get out of the most difficult unknown prison he has ever seen, with all the new friends he makes inside there which includes Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Now, something to admit, I haven't seen a single Sylvester or Arnold film until now. So, a very new territory for me when I saw this film.
The whole film is put onto the shoulders of Sylvester, firstly how good he is at his work when he does it with all the help, and then how he manages way out of the hell of prison he gets trapped into. And he pretty much does it very well.
Arnold on the other hand, gives him help in the prison, which he initially rejects, but slowly they become helpful friends to each other. He has a scene that kind of slow motions and gave a feeling it tried to give some homage to his old movies, which ultimately I didn't know about at all.
The rest of cast does faily decent work, though the one playing Pakistani prisoner at times gets on your nerves, and a touch melodramatic.
The dialogues are humurous at times, but no powerful punch lines.
Though I loved Jim Caviezel (playing Hobbes), I still wish he had more mean scenes. At times I felt director made him look evil and bad, but not extract from those looks and poses he was giving to actually do something too. For instance, when he makes it difficult for Rottmayer to breathe, or when he tries to break down Breslin so that he slows down or gives up on his chances to escape. There had to be much more of this. There was one super funny scene when Breslin asks Rottmayer and one pakistani prisoner to say cheese looking at the camera which Hobbes is having a look at, specially the expression Arnold make in that.
I love how they keep the location of prison suspense to us the viewers just like Breslin. The movie gets narrated entirely through his point of view, when he looks around the new prison and ways to escape, the camera slowly widens and then shows us how the entire prison looks. And where the prison is shown to us when Breslin escaped the locked room, only to find out that its a blood ship midway sea near to who knows which part of country.
Only problem I found in Breslin's plot was his past, which made him start doing this job. Maybe most people wont agree, but I felt a small flashback could had been better. Or possibly kept the past story out of the script.
Overall, Escape Plan works as a thriller due to Arnold and specially Sylvester's performance. The writing in the part when Breslin gets trapped could had been better to give something extra to the movie. As of now, it turns out to be good enough film to be watched, but nothing exceptional. Its all about how much you love Sylvester Stallone finding successful ways to escape out, either through PlanA, or the backup PlanB he always has.
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1211956/
Sylvester's magic in a thriller that could had been much better.
Read at your own risk, the post is full of spoilers.
Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) works for a authority dealing with structural security. He gets himself set into prisons, and finds ways of getting out just to help those prisons know where they lack. A new case comes to them, where Breslin slightly hesistant accepts it only to find it later that he's been set up in a prison far away from his place with almost no outside help possible. Now, Breslin has to use all his life experience to get out of the most difficult unknown prison he has ever seen, with all the new friends he makes inside there which includes Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Now, something to admit, I haven't seen a single Sylvester or Arnold film until now. So, a very new territory for me when I saw this film.
The whole film is put onto the shoulders of Sylvester, firstly how good he is at his work when he does it with all the help, and then how he manages way out of the hell of prison he gets trapped into. And he pretty much does it very well.
Arnold on the other hand, gives him help in the prison, which he initially rejects, but slowly they become helpful friends to each other. He has a scene that kind of slow motions and gave a feeling it tried to give some homage to his old movies, which ultimately I didn't know about at all.
The rest of cast does faily decent work, though the one playing Pakistani prisoner at times gets on your nerves, and a touch melodramatic.
The dialogues are humurous at times, but no powerful punch lines.
Though I loved Jim Caviezel (playing Hobbes), I still wish he had more mean scenes. At times I felt director made him look evil and bad, but not extract from those looks and poses he was giving to actually do something too. For instance, when he makes it difficult for Rottmayer to breathe, or when he tries to break down Breslin so that he slows down or gives up on his chances to escape. There had to be much more of this. There was one super funny scene when Breslin asks Rottmayer and one pakistani prisoner to say cheese looking at the camera which Hobbes is having a look at, specially the expression Arnold make in that.
I love how they keep the location of prison suspense to us the viewers just like Breslin. The movie gets narrated entirely through his point of view, when he looks around the new prison and ways to escape, the camera slowly widens and then shows us how the entire prison looks. And where the prison is shown to us when Breslin escaped the locked room, only to find out that its a blood ship midway sea near to who knows which part of country.
Only problem I found in Breslin's plot was his past, which made him start doing this job. Maybe most people wont agree, but I felt a small flashback could had been better. Or possibly kept the past story out of the script.
Overall, Escape Plan works as a thriller due to Arnold and specially Sylvester's performance. The writing in the part when Breslin gets trapped could had been better to give something extra to the movie. As of now, it turns out to be good enough film to be watched, but nothing exceptional. Its all about how much you love Sylvester Stallone finding successful ways to escape out, either through PlanA, or the backup PlanB he always has.
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