ESCAPE PLAN IS AWESOME

As I said before, It finally happened. The two biggest names in action movies, the men who created a genre and were the personification of blockbuster films, teamed up. As my former posts note, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger joined forces to star in the new film, “Escape Plan” together. And the results were epic. The main setting of the movie is a secret, CIA funded super-prison, where Stallone’s character Ray Breslin is sent to find a security flaw in the form of an escape route. Helping him throughout this endeavor is Schwarzenegger’s character, Emil Rotmayer. If this sounds far-fetched, it is. But it is so far-fetched that it completely works as an action movie. The dynamic between the two action superstars is undeniable, and the twists and turns that the plot takes make “Escape Plan” thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable. Stallone and Schwarzenegger’s combined efforts makes one wish that they had been able to work together prior to this film, when action movies were in their heyday. Based on the box office numbers, it looks like this is not going to be as profitable as it would have been in the 80’s or 90’s, but that does not take away from the quality of the film. It stands as a great movie that will entertain for years to come Vincent D’Onofrio and Jim Caveziel are great in their roles, and the whole movie works out to be an escapist masterpiece of tremendous proportions, a truly fun movie. Stallone and Schwarzenegger will team up again for the third outing of the Expendables, and it is clear that these two titans of the cinema have an undeniable chemistry that is impossible not to enjoy if you are a fan of action movies.