Escape Plan 2: Hades

2018 • 93 minutes

About this movie

Years after Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) fought his way out of the escape-proof prison called "The Tomb," he’s organized a new top-notch, for-hire security force. But when one of his team members goes missing inside a computerized techno-terror battle-maze known as HADES, Breslin together with Trent DeRosa (Dave Bautista) must now decipher a way to break into the world’s best hidden prison, release their kidnapped team and make it out alive.

Ratings and reviews

Great casting along with good acting but the script was extremely weak. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie you will completely be able to predict the entire rest of the movie. The first escape plan was very well done in an environment that you could believe to be real, this one however just looked fake right from the start. Your fist scene from the new prison leaves you asking "really, a prisoner gladiator arena?" only needing to be explained to you at the end what its purpose and by that time you really won't care because you've just been waiting for the movie to be over. Hopefully for the third movie, yes they lead you up to an Escape Plan 3, they can go back to the basics that made the first one so good.

The scariest part is when you first see Stallone. Other than that it is a B movie with a larger than average budget that they spent on actors. The plot gets super squirrelly and things happen inexplicably just to move it along. The funniest part is when they are talking about a solar power system and they talk about "blowing" it. Ive never seen a solar system that was at risk of blowing up. Then it blew up and there was some sort of steam involved that blew manhole covers off which of course advanced the plot. Lame stuff like that kept getting them out of impossible situations when they could have just thought of another way out, but the story was poorly written... Not even worth a rent.

Stallone and Bautista may headline the movie, but they're barely in it. This is more a martial arts movie than it is a prison break movie. The action scenes would've been decent but the movie budget went more into special effects instead of the fight choreography. Action scenes are masked with mass amounts of quick cuts, the majority of the movie is shot with a shakey cam and the story has an unnecessary amount of complexity.