Overall, it's fun, it's cheesy, it's chaotic and it's good. You gotta love these guys together.

| Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2024

After the finale degrades into a violent shootout and leaves us dissatisfied, not even solid portrayals by Stallone and Schwarzenegger make Escape Plan anything beyond a very, very guilty piece of actionized entertainment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2022

You’ll have to accept its absurdity and understand that there are several questions you’ll never get sufficient answers for.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The problem is that everything else, including characterizations, motivations, humor, a sense of place and a point of view - all the things that are a part of a complete and balanced feature - is empty and mind-numbing...

| Feb 16, 2021

Further proof that the Sly and Arnie show only really works if the word Expendable is in the title.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

How you respond to Escape Plan likely depends on how much you like those action movies from the 1980s.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 27, 2021

While the premise is certainly preposterous, as are the surmounting obstacles obstructing the detainees' freedom, the fun is impressively consistent.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2020

There's no getting around it: I liked this one.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2020

Classic! Classic one-liners. Classic buddies. Classic action. Escape Plan is everything that we love about classic action movies and the genres high gods, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

| Jan 7, 2020

Escape Plan reeks with a lackadaisical ennui that makes it difficult to truly enjoy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2019

We've waited decades-DECADES-for these knuckleheads to do a team-up movie, and you give us an hour of hallway walk-and-talks? For shame!

| Original Score: 4.8/10 | Apr 11, 2019

Escape Plan's faults are obvious and hardly worth belabouring, but its successes are harder earned and carried off with a nostalgic, if not quite guilt-free, charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2019

This film doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. What it does try to do is be a fun, engaging classic action movie with a few unexpected twists. And guess what: it succeeds. It's not great art, but it's great fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 3, 2018

For old-school action fans, the sight of Arnie's automatic weapon spraying bullets that rip through flesh and send dark spatters of blood tracing patterns through the air like grim fireworks may still quicken the pulse...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2018

The characters fit to a tee, except for 50 Cent, incongruously miscast as a computer nerd! The action is routine but the way they plan the escape is interesting and inspired.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 18, 2017

As implausible macho nonsense goes, it's surprisingly good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2017

Escape Plan delivers an acceptable Friday action outing but its running on fumes by the time the heroes are tackling the last phases of its considerable gauntlet.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2016

Dear devotees of finely drawn, understated cinema - here's your exit. This is "Escape Plan," a cinematic universe in which Stallone and Schwarzenegger play geniuses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2016

Ah-nald hasn't been this much fun in decades.

| May 5, 2015

Diverting but ultimately disappointing, considering how often the prison genre has produced movies of nail-biting tension or irresistible campiness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2014