The two action movie legends pair up again for "The Escape Plan". In this movie Stallone playing a Structural Engineer called Ray Breslin who is wrongly convicted and imprisoned in his ultimate creation - the world's most secure prison.
In prison he befriends a fist-fight loving, equally middle aged inmate named Swan Rottmayer played by Schwarzenegger. Both of them are highly capable men and come together with a plan to escape with the help of Hush, a computer expert played by 50 Cent. To be honest when I heard "Fiddy": was in the flick, I just automatically thought of him in a tank top with pistols jammed into every pocket in his G-Unit jeans. He plays a surprisingly cerebral role in the movie.
As if escaping from the monster of technology and steel that Stallone's character built wasn't bad enough, our three heroes have to survive other inmates as well as the brutal Chief Warden of the prison and his bodyguard played by Jim Caveziel and Vinnie Jones.
Recent movies from these two old foxes have failed to "make it rain" at the box office but the popularity of their era of high-testosterone, macho-men of the 1980's and 1990's has not waned at all. The recent success of the "Expendables", "Die Hard", "Olympus has fallen" and other blockbusters lends credence to the fact that movie fans have missed the all-out action that these two men represent. Something about this film smells of a classic that may earn a place in our archives.
Movie is slated for release in September so watch out for it.
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