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

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

The most surprising thing about this movie, outside of its length, is just how unsurprising it really is, especially regarding its tired climax.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 25, 2013

This functional thumper generally gets the job done, plodding merrily, if unremarkably, through the generic set pieces, making a passable fist of well-worn material.

| Oct 21, 2013

In a glorious moment of unified defiance, Stallone and Schwarzenegger look directly at the camera and raise a middle finger at anyone assuming that time has run out on these two aging heavyweights.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2013

Escape Plan is the newest vehicle for aging action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and, in this case, it's a lemon or possibly an Edsel.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2013

Stallone spoils the dumb-fun mood. He wears the stoical gaze of someone who knows he's being buried alive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2013

Try not to think too hard about it, and Escape Plan is stupid, stupid fun.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2013

You watch "Escape Plan" because it's fun to see Stallone and Schwarzenegger palling around. Not fun enough, though.

| Oct 18, 2013

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are relentlessly likeable, even when serving up plot and dialogue that would have been trampled on the writer's room floor of "Knight Rider" circa 1985.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2013

Schwarzenegger misses no opportunity to be hilarious. How many actors can make you chuckle even when they're being waterboarded?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2013

As Hollywood vehicles for aging action stars go, it's at least serviceable. Of course it's ridiculous, but what else would you expect?

| Original Score: C | Oct 18, 2013

A mildly amusing, if ultimately pointless prison-break thriller from Mikael Håfström.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2013

Most of the time, it veers between dumb (the entire concept) to dumber: Breslin says, "I didn't see that coming," and members of the audience called out, "We did!"

| Original Score: C | Oct 17, 2013

All in all, "Escape Plan" does what it sets out to do.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2013

What do aging action stars do in their retirement? Nothing. Because they never retire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2013

It's not a movie about two old guys who come back, but a straight-ahead action movie meant to be taken on its own terms.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2013

"Escape Plan" is mostly a gray, thudding metal machine of throwback exploitation, but the goateed, goofy Ah-nold is so happy to be in the thick of an old-school bruiser again that he makes it feel like the dumb-fun flashback party it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2013

Schwarzenegger seems to be the only one here who correctly takes the film as a lark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2013

While it's fun to remember '80s popcorn-movie thrills, fully recapturing those thrills might be impossible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2013

Finally, a Stallone / Schwarzenegger film that isn't completely beneath them.

| Original Score: 6.8/10 | Oct 17, 2013