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Post #1192787

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Mike O
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5-Apr-2018, 10:14 PM

Escape Plan- Stallone and Schwarzenegger, together at last. This would be been the biggest film ever made back in the 90s. Now it’s a modestly-budgeted throwback action movie that deliberately evokes the 80s movies it wants to emulate. Some critics yawned, and they’re entitled to; its a couple of decades out of date. But if you’re willing to put yourself in that mindset, it can also be kind of fun watching Rambo and the Terminator try to escape a sci-fi prison run by Jesus. Some interesting bits of production design, and an enjoyably daft plot involving a futuristic prison-break. Nothing complicated, but it doesn’t intend to be, and Sly and Arnold are, at long last (Expendables excluded), a fun pairing. Vinnie Jones has another role as a brawny henchman. An enjoyable old-style action picture if you like that kind of stuff. And I do.