Escape Plan 3 [DVD]

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Dont get me wrong i have nothing against chinease films some of them are excellent but this is a hybrid trying to aim at two markets and with others that i have seen recently they all fail. it is what it is its an ok film that passes the time but its not great in cinematographically, acting, storyline or anything else. i can only say that they 50% that gave it 5stars are either involved with the film or fake. the most frustrating for me where the subtitled sections again i have nothing against subtitles i watch quite a few and enjoy them. its the unecessary switch into chinease i presume to appease the chinease market but its just stupid when all the actors can speak english and for the bit that did just unecessary. do one thing or the other. again id like amazon to look at the votes that this has got as i really cant believe so many people thought this was a 5 star as it is no block buster, cult classic, or uniquely orginal film deserving such a review.

And it is ... chewing gum for the brain." sorry about the steven miller thing, so heres a better movie by Herztfeld to make up for it"!I wouldnt have called it escape anything, but maybe "Rambo meets Bruce Lee's great nephew"?at least we see Sly in action this time, and I do have a soft spot for the guy he's entertained me so much over the years, and if we're honest this is what we want from him, beat all the bad guys up in the way that only Sly can!I wouldn't get involved in complaining about the sponsors nor the politics of the making of this movie, simply because that's not what I think about when I want to pick a movie, I just want to go somewhere else for an hour and this did the trick. (by the way to another reviewer - all actors are unknown at some point !, how boring would life be without new talent.

Can always rely on Stallone films to deliver a reasonably good story, action, long looks into the distance, flexing of muscles and a jolly good punch up! Reliably good fun!

Watch out bad guys Ray is coming. Gory in places loads of action.

Another month, another direct to video “adventure” from the producers of such “gems” as ‘First Kill’, ‘Gotti’, ‘Backtrace’ and ‘Extraction’ who have curled out… sorry, graced us with yet another sequel to a movie series that deserved much better. Why ‘Escape Plan’ has devolved into a low rent franchise but still managed to retain its original cast members is a mystery best left for greater minds - yet here it is, the turd… sorry, third entry in a befuddled series that only seemingly exists as a tax write off or beer money for its star…Returning franchise hero Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) is the ‘best in the business’ (natch) when it comes to breaking in and out of maximum security prisons. However, things take a downward turn when he’s hired to rescue Daya (Malese Jow), the kidnapped daughter of Hong Kong tech mogul Wu Zhang (Russell Wong) from a formidable Latvian prison - which also results in the capture of Breslin's girlfriend Abigail (Jaime King). Angered, Breslin teams up with old mucka Trent (Dave Bautista) and Daya’s former bodyguard Shen Lo (Max Zhang) to infiltrate the stronghold, but an old adversary from his past throws the entire rescue mission into turmoil, resulting in a life or death bid to save the girls and get out of the prison alive. Or somethin’.Spending most of the movies’ scant running time scratching my head as to what the point is - this series really isn’t going anywhere fast. I honestly enjoyed the first ‘Escape Plan’ and it was a joy to see both Stallone and Schwarzenegger having tons of fun playing with their macho heritage, but now with the immediate first sequel and this third effort - that original movie is now a fading memory of what could have been. Gone is the high five, fun ’n frolics tone - replaced by grim digital cinematography which appears to give the cast a look of perpetual jaundice and an ever aggressive tone where everyone is one step away from muttering ‘muthaf***er’ or impaling someone in the neck every five minutes. Just a grimy, no fun at all 90 minutes spent with miserable characters who operate in underlit locations without any sense of humour whatsoever. Sure, Stallone is always worth his weight in gold and I would never knock him - but why he feels the need to appear in dreck like this is beyond me. Guy is so much above it and one wishes he wouldn’t tarnish his impeccable cinematic legacy with dross of this kind… Director John Herzfeld (who oversaw ‘The Expendables documentary ‘Inferno’ and ‘Two Days in the Valley’) helms this one with a more assured hand than ‘Part 2’ director Steven C. Miller, but when his (and Miles Chapman’s) one note screenplay does nothing more than go from A-B in monotone fashion, don’t go in expecting a visual feast: Its all very dull both in terms of storytelling and production value.Signature’s UK blu-ray release grants the movie a very sharp transfer with vibrant audio, but when the movie looks like it was shot on an iPhone 8 with a green carrier bag taped over the camera… well, don’t get your hopes up. On the plus side, Stallone is excellent as usual (and strangely in the movie a lot more than I thought he would) and older fans will get a kick out of seeing ‘Bloodsport’ sequel mainstay Daniel Bernhardt as a heavy and ‘Idle Hand’s Devon Sawa pretending to be evil, even though he looks more like an unhappy Gerard Butler. But hey, its your money and I’m sure this may have a spike in the wake of ‘Rambo Last Blood’ but as always, approach with caution and keep your expectations in check - its just another direct to video time waster that uses name stars to sell a stale product. Y’know, just like all those other movies the producers make. Ahem.

I watched EP 1,2 and 3.1 and 3 I thoroughly enjoyed. 2, in my opinion, was a waste of time.