An average movie

Since I really didn’t like ‘Escape Plan 2: Hades’ at all, I had some very low expectations regarding this sequel but since I have the bad habit of watching pretty much anything starring Sylvester Stallone, I still ended up watching this movie. Well, to be honest, I think it was actually a slight improvement on the previous instalment. However, it doesn’t mean much since its predecessor was just so abysmally bad and the damned thing was still really weak though. For starters, the intro was really clunky and you might wonder why something seemingly so simple narratively speaking could be so poorly written? For example, why did they bring 2 bodyguards? Sure, these guys were both some solid martial artists, I’ll give you that, but the whole thing would have probably worked better with only one of them. Concerning the jail, in contrary to the previous movies in this franchise, it wasn’t some fancy high-tech building but a good old and seemingly really dirty prison which wasn’t a bad idea at all. However, even though the building was supposed to be huge, it seemed to be rather empty with only a handful of inmates and even less guards so I'm afraid it was not convincing at all. Concerning Stallone, at least, he had more screen-time than what is usually the case with such direct-to-VOD hack jobs but, in my opinion, he did look either terribly bored and/or really tired through the whole duration. Eventually, at more than 70 years old, you might wonder if the guy shouldn’t stop playing the toughest guy in the room. Anyway, to conclude, there is a fair chance that I was actually too generous with my rating here, the damned thing was really weak and you should probably avoid it, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Sylvester Stallone’s work.