6/7/2023 0 Comments Escape plan 2Still, the budget at least stretches to some action set-pieces, though they’re awkwardly thrown in between patches of mumbled dialogue one moment we’re in Hades, watching Shu quietly plotting his escape, the next we’ve cut to another character engaged in a Fast & Furious-style car chase that seems to have arisen out of nowhere. As directed by Steven C Miller, the jail has all the atmosphere and character of an abandoned bus depot it largely consists of a handful of sparse cells, dimly-lit corridors and a single atrium where all the fights take place. Stallone gets a couple of action scenes, but he spends most of the time standing in an industrial building or providing the voice in Shu’s head, offering sage advice about the finer points of organising a prison break.Ī more expensive movie – like, say, the original, $54 million Escape Plan – might have been able to give Hades a bit more personality. ![]() I am not sure how popular he is in the east cinemas but. Sylvester, Bautista, 50 cent are pretty much guest roles in this movie Staring Shu Ren. We have seen hollywood bending a bit to add in some chinese flavor in several movies but this movie takes the cake. Like the later Universal Soldier sequels, Escape Plan 2 feels like one of those movies where the starrier members of the cast filmed their scenes within a day or two. Escape Plan 2: Hades is an out and out Bmovie made purely for the Chinese market. While Breslin paces around his office wondering why so many of his employees are late for work, Shu is forced to fall back on his training with inmates forced to fight one another for special privileges every other day, he’s keen to figure out how to escape from his maze-like prison before his cousin’s beaten into giving up the secrets of his invention.Įscape Plan was no action classic, but it was a masterpiece compared to this, which looks like a film project that didn’t meet its minimum goal on Kickstarter.The greater share of the $20 million budget, it seems, went on assembling the eye-catching cast Schwarzenegger’s conspicuous by his absence, but we still have a returning Stallone and 50 Cent (the latter cast as Breslin’s bespectacled computer expert, Hush), while Dave Bautista briefly shows up with a machine gun and flat cap as another one of the good guys. Ray Breslin looks into the security levels of one of the worlds most complex prisons, Hades, in order. ![]() We quickly learn that Shu was targeted because his cousin, a programming genius, has invented some sort of high-tech satellite system, and the criminals who run Hades want that tech for themselves. The trouble begins when Shu and several other, affordable members of Breslin’s staff are kidnapped and bundled into a place called Hades – an underground prison run by a mysterious figure who calls himself The Zookeeper (Titus Welliver).
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