
Ray Breslin is a man who has devoted his life to making prisons inescapable by going into a prison as an inmate and trying to see if he can break out. And he has done a good job so far. A woman who says she works for the CIA approaches Ray and says that a new maximum security prison where the worst criminals are to be incarcerated, is about to be launched. So she wants him to go and make sure no one can get out. He agrees. So they make the necessary preps but when Ray arrives... (Full plot summary below)
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Ray Breslin is a man who has devoted his life to making prisons inescapable by going into a prison as an inmate and trying to see if he can break out. And he has done a good job so far. A woman who says she works for the CIA approaches Ray and says that a new maximum security prison where the worst criminals are to be incarcerated, is about to be launched. So she wants him to go and make sure no one can get out. He agrees. So they make the necessary preps but when Ray arrives at the prison, he discovers that someone doesn't want him to get out. He then tries to find a way out but he needs help. Another prisoner, Rottmeyer becomes friendly with him. And they decide to work together to get out.
Leave your thoughts about Escape Plan.
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekApart from the curious political subtext, it's mostly a standard-issue innocent-man-breaking-out-of-jail movie, enlivened primarily by Schwarzenegger's sense of abandon. |
| Orange County RegisterMichael SragowEscape Plan is set in an ultra-modern prison, but it's fossilized entertainment. |
| Screen It!Jim JudyYou can forgive a lackluster script and so-so acting if the action is top-notch, but that level of frenetic escapism is never reached here. (Full Content Review for Parents also available) |
| ScreenAnarchyJason GorberEscape Plan is cotton candy cinema, and about as architecturally substantial. It's a brisk two hours spent with a couple of VCR-era legends...executed with enough gumption to make the film a fun if frivolous escape. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerMercifully free of tongue-in-cheek meta-humor, Escape Plan is a likably lunkheaded meat-and-potatoes brawler that never pretends to be more sophisticated than it is. |
| Film School RejectsRobert LevinThis is all completely ridiculous and sensationally entertaining. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSo chalk Escape Plan up as a pretty good action movie given an extra edge by the intelligent use of its two main actors. |
| Tolucan TimesTony MedleyIt's regrettable that a movie that had built quite a bit of credibility stoops to such a hackneyed ending. But that's not enough to ruin the evening. This is an entertaining couple of hours. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikThe film has a clever premise and, until a predictably generic climax, follows through on it with a neat if faulty logic. |
| COED.comPhil VillarrealA relic the 80s, an action flick era well into its fourth decade. |