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'Escape Plan' review: A film with loose ends and mediocre script

Unlike The Expendables films that take pride in cramming as many past-their-prime action heroes that are looking for an easy pay-cheque, 'Escape Plan' offers us the pleasure of watching Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarznegger in their first true-blue cinematic jugalbandi. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarznegger deserve better and so do the audience. Stallone plays Ray Breslin, a jail-break expert hired to slink out of US prisons to test their security systems. When he reluctantly accepts an offer to test a new facility designed to hold the world's most dangerous criminals, he discovers he's been double-crossed. With the sadistic warden (Jim Cavieziel) keeping a close eye on his every move, Breslin must turn to fellow grizzled inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarznegger) to help him in his breakout plan
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