DVD Review: Escape Plan

Escape Plan, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a thrilling movie. My husband was surprised when I told him I wanted to watch it, but come on, have you heard what it's about?! Absolutely intriguing and very cool!

Ray Breslin (Stallone), is a security expert who makes a living testing out maximum security prisons for safety. He has a business, along with several business partners, which sends him into these facilities as a "prisoner." He then must play along and observe these prisons and their staff until he finds a way to escape, thus proving how "secure" these prisons really are or are not. Things are going great until the CIA calls with a new, very high paying escape assignment. They want to send Breslin into a for-profit, off the grid facility that has been designed to meet Breslin's security standards and should be impossible to break out of. The moment he is picked up on this assignment, though, things are very “off.” It appears that Breslin has been framed and is truly being taken captive as a prisoner. He can’t find a way to escape, and the captors will not let him go. That’s when he meets Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger), a fellow prisoner who needs to find a way out. Together, they work on an escape plan to break out of the world’s most secure, and hidden, prison.

So as I said, this is a completely thrilling movie with so many questions, twists, and turns. I was feeling tense the whole time as I rooted the characters on. I was also intrigued by the prison itself, which had a very unique and futuristic setup for advanced safety. Also intriguing was the fact that this prison was totally off the grid, illegal, and at an undisclosed location, so no one had any idea where Breslin was being held captive after they found out it was all a scam. 

The film often switches between the prison setting with the two men plotting together, to Breslin's partners who are desperately trying to find where he was brought to so they can break him out after they discovered it was all a plot against him. I enjoyed seeing these two perspectives, of Breslin's desperation to get out, and his friends desperation to GET him out. There were two teams working separately towards one common goal. 

I will say, I REALLY enjoyed this movie, but I have one minor complaint: it got to be a bit confusing at times and I am still unsure of exactly who Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) was and how he ended up in the prison. I'm also a bit confused on some other details too. Other than that though, this movie was pretty darn awesome and one that I would highly recommend!
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Reviewed by Stephanie

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