Now I will admit that I was a lil bit tipsy when I started to watch this film. Thinking this will good to watch before bed. I clicked on the first escape plan that came up and it was this one. Number 3. However this does not excuse how absolutely dog shit this film was. The plot was so thin and boring I don’t know why I sat through the entire thing.
I have like a ‘bajilion’ question but seeming as though I need to watch 1 & 2 now I shall hold off on ones like why is Dave Bautista, Mike from glee and 50 cent in this film. Regardless, who ends a trilogy on that ending? Like you want more? SERIOUSLY. So they leave Mike from glee in the prison with a bullet wound and he crawls out alone. And that’s the big ending. Bear in mind that he was on Sly’s side. Is he now the next films villain? And why?
Sly plays ‘Ray’ a talented and intelligent individual with a wife who looks like she’s in her 30s/40s where as Ray looks 70. His wife gets taken by the son of a man who 50 cent killed (in another movie probably) also taken is the daughter of a rich Chinese CEO and his daughter’s entourage. So Ray teams up with Dave Bautista (Trent), the daughter’s long lost boyfriend (Shen)? & Mike from glee (Bao). Together they locate the prison with no difficulty, break in and prison riot their way out. Rays wife gets killed in the process.
Here are my issues with this movie:
1. What was 50 cent doing in this movie. He’s the hacker of the group but is barely in the film and makes little to no contributions. They must have said to him, “hey you were in the other films (I hope anyway) and we need your fame, please come fake tap on a laptop for 10 minutes and your done” - Shameless producing.
2. The brutality of this film is something that was quite unexpected and yet I didn’t care. I wasn’t scared for their lives, I was more horrified at how little I cared. Literally two throat slits happen in the last 20 minutes of the movie. A bunch of people get shot and no one seems to care. It was just barbaric. I know some people like violence but this wasn’t a case of violence for violence sake it felt more like we really need to make this film more interesting quickly. Let’s have a bunch of murders! - LAZY writing.
3. We are lead to believe that this is a prison for extremely dangerous criminals and yet the ‘heroes’ of the story just let them escape. Like these people are murderers and rapists. And yet, they help each other out. Who am I supposed to be routing for?? The guy who wants revenge for killing his father and who wants to keep the prisoners locked away. Or the guy that breaks em all out and him and his team go on a massive murder spree. - Confused direction.
4. The film was called escape plan 3: the extractors. Why is it an escape plan movie if they don’t even show how they get out of the land-mined prison is Russia they are in. Like I get that it’s also called the extractors and they go in and ‘extract’ but it wasn’t an escape plan. They didn’t film the escape, there was no plan and they failed to extract everyone. It’s like calling a film fast and furious but instead of going fast and furious its vin diesel stood by a bbq. Surely the pull of these films is the thrill and the complex ways of breaking out of prisons that are ‘impossible’ to escape. This film has none of this. - Cash grab garbage
I would make more points about how this film is terrible but I genuinely can’t be bothered to continue writing. This film has very little substance or plot. The choreography is dicey and the cinematography was dark and overly hand held. It just seems like this film put 95 % of the budget on the cast then used the rest to quite literally throw together a sloppy borderline racist action thriller with too much exposition and not enough development or depth.
Now I will admit that I was a lil bit tipsy when I started to watch this film. Thinking this will good to watch before bed. I clicked on the first escape plan that came up and it was this one. Number 3. However this does not excuse how absolutely dog shit this film was. The plot was so thin and boring I don’t know why I sat through the entire thing.
I have like a ‘bajilion’ question but seeming as though I need to watch 1 & 2 now I shall hold off on ones like why is Dave Bautista, Mike from glee and 50 cent in this film. Regardless, who ends a trilogy on that ending? Like you want more? SERIOUSLY. So they leave Mike from glee in the prison with a bullet wound and he crawls out alone. And that’s the big ending. Bear in mind that he was on Sly’s side. Is he now the next films villain? And why?
Sly plays ‘Ray’ a talented and intelligent individual with a wife who looks like she’s in her 30s/40s where as Ray looks 70. His wife gets taken by the son of a man who 50 cent killed (in another movie probably) also taken is the daughter of a rich Chinese CEO and his daughter’s entourage. So Ray teams up with Dave Bautista (Trent), the daughter’s long lost boyfriend (Shen)? & Mike from glee (Bao). Together they locate the prison with no difficulty, break in and prison riot their way out. Rays wife gets killed in the process.
Here are my issues with this movie:
1. What was 50 cent doing in this movie. He’s the hacker of the group but is barely in the film and makes little to no contributions. They must have said to him, “hey you were in the other films (I hope anyway) and we need your fame, please come fake tap on a laptop for 10 minutes and your done” - Shameless producing.
2. The brutality of this film is something that was quite unexpected and yet I didn’t care. I wasn’t scared for their lives, I was more horrified at how little I cared. Literally two throat slits happen in the last 20 minutes of the movie. A bunch of people get shot and no one seems to care. It was just barbaric. I know some people like violence but this wasn’t a case of violence for violence sake it felt more like we really need to make this film more interesting quickly. Let’s have a bunch of murders! - LAZY writing.
3. We are lead to believe that this is a prison for extremely dangerous criminals and yet the ‘heroes’ of the story just let them escape. Like these people are murderers and rapists. And yet, they help each other out. Who am I supposed to be routing for?? The guy who wants revenge for killing his father and who wants to keep the prisoners locked away. Or the guy that breaks em all out and him and his team go on a massive murder spree. - Confused direction.
4. The film was called escape plan 3: the extractors. Why is it an escape plan movie if they don’t even show how they get out of the land-mined prison is Russia they are in. Like I get that it’s also called the extractors and they go in and ‘extract’ but it wasn’t an escape plan. They didn’t film the escape, there was no plan and they failed to extract everyone. It’s like calling a film fast and furious but instead of going fast and furious its vin diesel stood by a bbq. Surely the pull of these films is the thrill and the complex ways of breaking out of prisons that are ‘impossible’ to escape. This film has none of this. - Cash grab garbage
I would make more points about how this film is terrible but I genuinely can’t be bothered to continue writing. This film has very little substance or plot. The choreography is dicey and the cinematography was dark and overly hand held. It just seems like this film put 95 % of the budget on the cast then used the rest to quite literally throw together a sloppy borderline racist action thriller with too much exposition and not enough development or depth.
