The set-up works fine, the story has an emotional element, there are personal stakes for both the heroes and the villains. Breslin is aided in this endeavor by Hush and Jules problem solver Trent Derosa (Dave Bautista), who was introduced in HADES Daya's current bodyguard Bao (Harry Shum Jr.) and Daya's former bodyguard / love interest Shen (Jin Zhang). So while the previous films were about people trying to figure out how to escape from prisons, THE EXTRACTORS flips the concept around and is about people trying to figure out how to infiltrate a prison. Stallone is great at displaying rage, I would not want to get on that guy's bad side. She and Breslin had a flirtmance in the previous movies, but now they're in a full-fledged relationship, making her abduction an even more emotional situation for Breslin. Jaime King took over the role in part 2, and honestly I didn't even realize she was supposed to be the same character Ryan played until I was about to start watching 3. Like computer whiz Hush (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) and receptionist turned field agent Jules (Lydia Hull), Abigail is a character who has been around since the first movie, where she was played by Amy Ryan. To do this, he abducts the company owner's daughter Daya Zhang (Melise) and Breslin's co-worker/girlfriend Abigail (Jaime King), taking them away to Devil's Station, a hellish black site prison he runs in Latvia. (Devon Sawa), who wants revenge on Breslin for what he did to his father and on the company behind The Tomb for getting his father mixed up in their schemes. The villain who gets the story rolling is Lester Clark Jr. Director John Herzfeld, who also rewrote the screenplay by Miles Chapman (co-writer on the first ESCAPE PLAN and the only credited writer on 2), wanted the story of the film to be a direct sequel to the first movie. The events of HADES are of little consequence here. Stallone has been there before – it's where the prison scenes in TANGO & CASH were filmed. This movie was shot in a real former prison, the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, which was built between 18, then closed down in 1990. THE EXTRACTORS is still an ensemble film, but it feels like more of a Stallone film than HADES did, and the prison in this story is the opposite of the hi-tech places from the previous films. Breslin's business partner Lester Clark (Vincent D'Onofrio) ending up betraying him and trying to get him stuck in a hi-tech prison called The Tomb for good, but with the help of a character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger our hero was eventually able to get out of the place and get some payback on Clark.ĮSCAPE PLAN: THE EXTRACTORS, the third film in this franchise, isn't on the same level as that big screen Stallone/Schwarzenegger team-up movie, but it is an improvement over last year's ESCAPE PLAN 2: HADES, which went too over-the-top sci-fi for my liking and also shifted the focus away from Stallone for a substantial amount of the running time. REVIEW: Released in 2013, the first film in the ESCAPE PLAN franchise starred Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin, a man whose security firm tested the integrity of maximum security prisons by passing off Breslin as a convict, dropping him into the prisons, and seeing if he could escape from them. PLOT: Ray Breslin and his associates take on a vengeful villain who runs a hellhole black site prison.
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