Escape Plan

Action titans Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger join forces in this prison-set thriller with a technological twist. Stallone plays a security expert who tests the integrity of penitentiaries from the inside, by getting himself incarcerated and then escaping. When his latest assignment goes awry, Stallone finds himself isolated in a hi-tech fortress under the watchful eye of sadistic warden Jim Caviezel, so teams up with fellow inmate Schwarzenegger to stage the daddy of all break-outs. What follows adheres closely to a standard jailbreak-movie template, although director Mikael Hafstrom relishes throwing newfangled gadgetry and sci-fi scares into the mix (the black-masked guards are especially spooky). Sly and Arnie are not called upon to do anything they haven't done dozens of times before, their stony-faced verbal sparring and carefully choreographed fisticuffs just what their legions of fans will want to see, while overlooking the occasionally baffling holes in the plot.