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Jun 29, 2018 · 7% Tomatometer 27 Reviews. Rotten audience score. 15% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world...
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- Steven C. Miller
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- Sylvester Stallone
Escape Plan 2: Hades Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Kenneth Seward Jr. IGN Movies. Escape Plan 2: Hades fails to recapture what made the...
- Fails to recapture what made the previous film a decent watch.
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By Kenneth Seward jr.
Posted: Jul 3, 2018 2:00 pm
When it comes to action movies, I’m the genre’s number one fan. Like seriously. I aspire to own everything involving Jackie Chan, I think The Running Man is underrated and believe that Inception doesn’t get enough praise. I even enjoyed the terrible Transformers films, sans The Last Knight because I have standards. The point is, I’m the target audience for anything with random explosions, long drawn out fight scenes, and actors who were popular in the '80s. And yet, I still can’t find a reason to recommend Escape Plan 2: Hades.
Directed by Steven C. Miller, Escape Plan 2 reconnects with Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) and his security firm years after his exploits in the first film. No longer looking to escape-proof maximum-security prisons, his company now specializes in private military ops around the globe. At least, that’s what I think they’re doing; the film doesn’t really clarify this point, but it does open with Ray’s team trying to rescue female hostages from a terrorist group. Despite a botched mission early on, the company seems to be in good spirits. That is until one of Ray’s newer recruits, Shu Ren (Huang Xiaoming), is kidnapped while trying to protect his tech giant of a cousin, Yusheng.
Both men are taken to a futuristic, black-site prison called Hades. Neither of them remembers being brought there or how long they’ve been locked up. All they know is that they have to escape. That is easier said than done of course. With its rotating floors, force fields, and automated defenses, Hades isn’t the typical prison. Then there’s the warden (Titus Welliver) who delights in making Shu fight in his arena. His aim seems to be to keep the prisoners from befriending one another; the winner of each match is given a few hours of “freedom” while everyone else is stuck in their dungeon-like environment. And the fact that Shu is a skilled fighter means most of the other prisoners resent him – he’s not getting any help from the inside. Yusheng, on the other hand, is being tortured for information. Apparently, he patented a powerful piece of tech that’s worth millions to the wrong kinds of people. Yusheng’s reluctant to spill the beans and Shu’s efforts to escape keeps them both in the warden’s crosshairs. Their only solace is that Ray Breslin is known for breaking out of prisons. With him on the outside, it’s only a matter of time before he finds a way to free them.
Escape Plan 2: Hades is a predictable, low budget followup to an OK movie. That’s less of a criticism and more of balancing of expectations. I didn’t think this sequel would be some grand showing from Sylvester Stallone nor do I think it was meant to be such a thing; it skipped theaters for a reason. What I did expect, though, was a fun movie with some over-the-top action and a nonsensical plot. Some campy lines. A humorous moment or two. Basically, a decent popcorn experience that’s worthy of occupying a chunk of my Friday night. Instead, what I got was an action film devoid of any life. Where stilted characters spout their lines without any enthusiasm or conviction and boring fight scenes are made worse by the long, dry moments leading up to them.
Escape Plan 2: Hades fails to recapture what made the previous film a decent watch. It doesn’t offer up any thrills, compelling characters or humor. It’s simply adequate and so incredibly boring, which isn’t an adjective a fan would normally use when describing this sort of film.
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