[Movie] Escape Plan (2013) || Stallone and Arnold Together!
Published on HivePostify by @rookie2001 · Mon Aug 31 2026
Hello Everyone! Hope you all are doing amazing.
I watched Escape Plan (2013) recently and didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.
So I had heard about this movie before but never got around to watching it and the biggest reason I was interested was the cast. We have Sylvester Stallone and, Arnold Schwarzenegger together in a prison escape movie. They are in the same film. I mean, how can you not be curious about that?
So I finally decided to give it a watch, and it turned out to be a pretty entertaining action thriller.
It is not a movie that is trying to reinvent cinema or give you an extremely deep story, but it is mainly here to entertain you, and honestly sometimes that is exactly what I want from a movie.
I'm gonna keep this review totally spoiler free so if you haven't seen it yet don't worry I won't mention any major twists or how the movie ends.
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The idea of the movie is interesting.
Sylvester Stallone plays Ray Breslin, a man who has a unusual job. His specialty is testing prisons. He will lock himself inside different prisons. He then will try to escape them. He will try to figure out how.
And, honestly, that sounds like a pretty terrible job to me.
So you willingly get yourself sent to prison just so you can figure out how to get out.
Ray is good at what he does, he studies prison design, watches guard behavior, looks for weaknesses and understands how the system works.
Things change when he is sent to a prison that is unlike anything he has dealt with before.
And, this is where the movie really starts getting interesting.
The prison itself is probably one of the best parts of Escape Plan.
So it is not just a normal prison but one designed to make escaping extremely difficult, and Ray has to use everything he knows to figure out where he is and, how the place works.
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I really enjoyed the mystery surrounding the prison.
At the beginning, you're trying to understand the situation along with Ray.
Where is he?
Why did they take him there.
Who is in charge of the place?
He has no way out.
Those questions kept my interest.
The movie doesn't give you all the answers at once which makes the first part sorta enjoyable because you watch Ray observe his surroundings and, try to figure things out.
It's less about simply punching guards in addition to breaking through doors and more about using intelligence.
That's what sets Escape Plan apart from action movies.
The main character is not escaping because he is the strongest person in the building.
He's escaping because he's studying everything around him.
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Then Arnold Schwarzenegger enters the scene.
Arnold plays Emil Rottmayer, a fellow prisoner who matters to Ray's journey.
Seeing Stallone and Schwarzenegger sharing the screen is probably the biggest attraction of the movie, also thankfully, their pairing works pretty well.
Their personalities differ enough that they do not feel like two versions of the same character.
Stallone's character is more focused and analytical, and Arnold brings confidence, humor and attitude to his role.
Their conversations stand out in the movie.
So there is action movie dialogue here and sometimes it's serious and, sometimes it's funny and you can feel the movie saying yep these two action stars are finally together.
I didn't mind it.
It adds personality to what could have been a serious movie.
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[SOURCE](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1211956/mediaviewer/rm3827358720/)
The action itself is solid.
The film has fights, chases, and shootouts.
Like I mentioned before, the movie doesn't rely only on action.
Much of the tension comes from Ray trying to understand the prison.
Sometimes the most interesting scenes are simply him walking around, observing something or talking to another prisoner.
You know that something is not right, but you are waiting to see what happens next.
I liked that.
The movie balances action in addition to mystery.
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