Having seen and enjoyed the original ESCAPE
PLAN starring Sylvester Stallone, Scott and I were looking forward to
the sequel, ESCAPE PLAN 2: HADES.
Netflix Synopsis:
“Security expert Ray Breslin returns to face a highly
personal challenge when his best operative, Shu Ren, is abducted and held
inside a state-of-the-art prison, making any attempt to free him virtually
impossible.”
Well, they may all have had the best of intentions, but
movie two is a far weaker version of the original. They ramped up the special effects,
ramped down the dialogue, and created a semi yawn of a movie where Stallone is
hardly around at all. Present for a few scenes in the early stages of this epic
and a bit more at the end, but nowhere in between as various folks from his
team are grabbed and thrown into the prison to meet each other and plot their
escape. And, if they did not escape, one
could not as easily do the third movie as implied at the end.
Hopefully, if they do a third movie, at the very least they
do a better job of working in the stunt double for Stallone if they must do his
fight scenes. Not sure, but this visually could be worse than what is done for
Steven Segall in his fight scenes these days. It is a close call and I am not
willing to make the sacrifice of repeat viewings to clarify my impressions one
way or another.
Do not buy this unless you have a collection of every
Sylvester Stallone movie ever made. Do the rental thing through RedBox
where they have both the first and the second one as a double feature deal or as
this movie only by way of Netflix
like we did. Our issue was having too
high expectations as we liked the first one so much. This one does not come anywhere
close to that level of action adventure.
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2 comments:
You're right, Kevin. I liked the first one and thought this might be worth a watch, even substituting Dave B. for Ahnuld. But nooo….
As you say, Stallone's barely in the movie. (BTW, it's "Steven Seagal" FWIW.)
Sucks.
We ground our way through it, but it was hard.
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