There is nothing here that is remotely interesting nor compelling. The supporting cast, however, is almost non-existent. With yet another instalment of Rambo around the corner and the direct-to-DVD features cropping up more and more in his filmography, it would seem that Stallone is once again going down the path of a downward career spiral. He still has superb screen presence and bravado but the material he’s working with is not so de-similar to the garbage of the early 2000s, his downward career only saved by his redeeming rendition of the titular character in Rocky Balboa. Stallone is sadly comatose throughout, with the pay-check far too enchanting to turn down at this point. The performances and characters are the standard/middle of the road creation that have little charisma or talent to craft anything other than a simplistic and overly ordinary experience in the action genre. It is in actual fact a rather well-made thriller for what is essentially a low-grade direct-to-video venture. Yet strangely acts as a direct sequel of sorts to the initial film released in 2013, confused yet? Herzfeld’s film follows Ray Breslin (Stallone) who is hired to find and rescue a daughter of a wealthy businessman, who has been kidnapped by a group of terrorists that have more in common with Breslin than he initially realises.Įscape Plan 3: The Extractors is nowhere near the despicable lows that its predecessor Hades fell. The Extractors, thankfully, has nothing in common, in fact has ZERO connections to, its predecessor. Shot back-to-back with the horrid and Stallone vacant second instalment Escape Plan 2: Hades, yet are both directed by two different directors, completes what is a disaster of a trilogy. Dark, ugly hallways (the film has terrible lighting) and a real Z-list production feel - I swear they didn’t even bother hiring a full roster of prisoners – how much does it take to call in some extras for a Stallone movie?! The whole movie is phoned in, lazy, cheap and a blemish on the resume of everyone involved.Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Devon Sawa, Dave Bautista, 50 Cent, Jamie King | Written by John Herzfeld, Miles Chapman | Directed by John HerzfeldĮscape Plan 3: The Extractors, directed by John Herzfeld, is the third and final film in the not so good Escape Plan franchise that began in 2013 with a team-up of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and has somehow become a franchise and ended up receiving two direct-to-DVD ensembles with a cast of unknowns, and even weaker narratives. Well, as the director of that cult 1990’s movie made it look old, classy and full of character, in this movie you couldn’t tell it apart from an abandoned building in Uzbekistan. I was looking forward to Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista raiding the old Shawshank prison. Some fight scenes are included, but they are ruined by a hack editor and director. There are a lot of no-name actors here, acting as filler, trying to drive along a God-awful ‘intrigue’ plot that really tries patience and nerves, especially in the first half hour. Dave Bautista is in it even less, a real extended cameo (with one mediocre fight scene with a heavy). Over its 90 minutes, probably less than 20. Sylvester Stallone isn’t in the movie much, at least for something that has him billed as the lead star. Of course there is escalating violence and uh… action. Breslin must take his tech boffin 50 Cent (this is surely an in-joke in the series?) and Trent DeRosa (Dave Bautista) to plan and carry out the raid. Extra emphasis is added for Breslin when he girlfriend is also captured and imprisoned. In this one, directed by John Herzfeld, Ray Breslin (Stallone) is recruited to bust out the daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison. It’s worse even than that recent Matthew Modine VODmit he was in, which I legitimately can’t even remember the name of. Well, as Escape Plan 2: Hades was the worst Sylvester Stallone movie ever, this is one of the worst. It would have a new director and it would lose the crappy SyFy-tier ‘hi-tech’ look and go to ground, using the Shawshank Prison itself. Stallone promised a turn around for the series in Escape Plan 3 though. Sylvester Stallone himself even took to social media to denounce the movie as ‘awful, the worst’. I called Escape Plan 2: Hades, the worst Sylvester Stallone movie ever made.
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