Escape Plan Movie Blurb by Shale October 19, 2013 You know I had to go see this movie. Amazingly those action movie lead actors who (along with me) were young men as Rambo and Conan are still out there bustin' heads and kicking ass (at least that's the visuals). And, they are about my age! Yeah, Sly is 67 and The Arnold is 66. Here is a little insider secret. I know making these movies have to hurt these guys. Even if guys our age look in great shape, ppl don't know the pulled muscles, bruising and just the pain of certain movements due to arthritic joints. So, it is nice to see action heroes one can relate to, even if they didn't take off their shirt once during the movie. (Don't make wise cracks, I live without a shirt on most of the time - and don't care what you think). There actually was a story in this movie, not just a bunch of gratuitous action stuff. Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) is part owner of a business that does security checks on maximum security prisons. He is the expert who gets sent to these prisons anonymously and then proceeds to figure out how to escape. The movie opens with just such an escape. His team Abigail Ross (Amy Ryan), Hush (Curtis Jackson) are the necessary outside source that aid in the escape, pick him up and come forward afterward to give the warden an assessment. His partner Lester Clark (Vincent D'Onofrio) shows up with the legal documents that let Ray go. Ray with Abigail Leaving Prison (Let me interject a little reality here. Ray's services are not needed in Florida. As I write this, two murderers have escaped from prison here by presenting bogus release orders supposedly signed by a judge - and they just walked out. It was mentioned that the prison will verify release orders in the future) After that bold escape, the company is approached by a CIA agent who wants them to assess one of their off-the-grid prisons they use for terrorists that need to be locked up without trial or judicial process. (Sounds legit) Partner Lester says they will double the usual fee and the $10 million dollars looks good to him. Reluctantly Ray takes the job and they put in the usual safeguards for his extraction in a pinch, especially since they will not reveal the location of the prison. Well, you know this is a shady deal and Ray is really kidnapped and thrown into that off-the-grid maximum security prison and they removed his implanted homing device. Here he meets one of the more prominent prisoners, Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) the body guard for Mannheim a notorious and powerful financier who threatens to throw the world into financial ruin. (No, he is not a T-party Congressman). Rottmayer Ready to Rumble Willard Hobbs (Jim Caviezel), the prison warden has been trying to break Rottmayer to locate Mannheim. He is a bit of a sadist and they use beatings by the intimidating masked guards as well as waterboarding and any other torture that the U.S. Gov't has been discovered to use outside the U.S. Ray and Rottmayer team up to escape, since Ray has the knowledge and Rottmayer has the resources inside the prison. Ray & Rottmayer Conspire in the Slammer In the process they have to start fights with each other and spend time in a confinement cell with glaring heat producing lights - all part of Ray's plan to find the weakest spot in the prison. Subdued by Guards And that's where I will leave the story. I found it quite an entertaining movie and the two action heroes that I have grown old with were quite convincing, even to those who know what if feels like to go thru routine assaults on the body, not the severe beatings and abuses they are put thru. Oh, Schwarzenegger is playing a German and goes into a long speech in his native language at one part. Couldn't help but wonder if he speaks it with an English accent.
