#Review escape plan 3 movie
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We can take these comments with a pinch of salt as he was trying to upsell Escape Plan 3, and essentially backing up the comments of worldwide reviewers in slating the quality of Escape Plan 2. He made comments to imply that making Escape Plan 2 was the worst filming experience of his life and that he disliked the film entirely. The quality of Escape Plan 2 was even overtly discussed by its star, Sylvester Stallone, before the premiere of Escape Plan 3. Instead, he seems to be just the muscle, juggernaut his way through bad guys and using violence to solve complex situations. There were clear attempts to allude to Bautista’s WWE past in his acting choices, which prevented Derosa appearing to make intelligent choices and portray him on the same kind of level as Breslin. However, what it led to was a film bereft of Breslin’s genius and carefully thought through escape attempts, leaving Derosa to ‘wrestle’ his way through and make poorly written comments that jar with the audience. Instead, Trent Derosa (Dave Bautista) is introduced to muscle in and save the day.ĭerosa is far too present throughout the film and Breslin is entirely lacking in screen time. Escape Plan 2 becomes a vehicle to introduce Derosa as a character within the universe and portray his expertise, arguably ahead of greater collaboration between him and Breslin in the third film. The jail designers took on board his escape and his research and published work about maintaining prison security and made the job “impossible” for Breslin. The sequel is an almost disparate event from the original, though it involves a further prison break from a black site jail, Breslin finds this too hard to complete independently like in the earlier film. However, after viewing both Escape Plan and Escape Plan, you might claim that there was some beginner’s luck involved. With only Stallone returning of the four aforementioned actors and a new director attached, the only hope was the writing that created the unpredictability and excitement of the first film would return at the hands of novice screenwriter Miles Chapman. With the production values on the slide and Stallone looking increasingly weary, Escape Plan 4 will probably see the ageing star rescue 50 Cent from the boot of a Ford Sierra.The first sequel, in contrast, was nothing short of dire.

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Escape Plan 3, then, is a muted entry in an unexpectedly enduring series – it’s strange to think Escape Plan got two sequels and counting, while Sly’s Cliffhanger and Cobra to date have received none. The scenes of martial artistry are athletically performed but few in number and ineptly captured thanks to some soupy digital photography the rest of the movie’s lean 90-minute duration is taken up by badly lit threats and assorted melodramatics. Even the villain’s the product of the franchise’s increasing austerity measures the original Escape Plan got Vincent D’Onofrio Escape Plan 2 got the always-watchable Titus Welliver Devon Sawa (who played the title role in 1995’s Casper) does his best here as a thinly sketched criminal mastermind with a vendetta against Breslin and a hatred of Chinese phone companies.

#Review escape plan 3 movie

As with Escape Plan 2, though, Stallone and his pricier stars play a smaller role here, with the greater percentage of the movie filled with affordable actors who also happen to be proficient in martial arts. Stallone again appears as Ray Breslin, a freelance prison security expert who, along with his curious assortment of allies – which includes 50 Cent and Dave Bautista in a flat cap – has the task of busting out a telecommunication magnate’s daughter and his own wife-to-be, Abigail (King) from a dank, sparsely populated gulag. Forget the cool suspended glass cells of the first movie this prison can barely afford padlocks. Escape Plan 3 (our guess: $32.50) takes a further downgrade, with its prison taking the form of an 19th century warehouse in Belarus. In Escape Plan 2 (budget: $20m), the big break-out took place in a cramped jail with flimsy grey walls. In the original Escape Plan (budget: $54m), stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were asked to escape from a high-tech facility on the high seas. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Curtis Jackson, Jaime King, Max ZhangĪs the series grinds on, the quality of the prisons descends.