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Escape Plan [Blu-ray]
(Mikael Håfström , 2013)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Summit Entertainment Video: Lions Gate
Disc: Region: 'A' (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:56:34.922 Disc Size: 47,980,119,001 bytes Feature Size: 35,648,028,672 bytes Video Bitrate: 32.49 Mbps Chapters: 13 Case: Standard Blu-ray case inside cardboard slipcase Release date: February 4th, 2014
Video: Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 5042 kbps 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5042 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps Commentary: Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English (SDH), English, Spanish, none
Extras: • Commentary by director Mikael Håfström and co-writer Miles Chapman • Executing the Plan: the Making of Escape Plan (22:13) • Maximum Security: The Real Life Tomb (21:57)• Clash of the Titans (15:34) • 11 Deleted Scenes (8:13)
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Description: A structural security expert must escape from a prison based on his own designs in order to track down the person who framed him in this gritty action thriller staring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ray Breslin (Stallone) has designed some of the most high-tech, escape-proof prisons in the world. When Breslin takes the fall for a crime he didn't commit, he's locked up in a penitentiary of his own making. Desperate to prove his innocence but unable to accomplish his goal from the inside, Breslin puts his professional know-how to use by planning the ultimate prison break. Meanwhile, as tensions among the convicts start to flare, strict warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel) enlists lead guard Drake (Vinnie Jones) to maintain order as mysterious inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) fights to prevent the volatile inmates from turning on one another. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Amy Ryan, and Sam Neill co-star.
The Film: Prison-cracker extraordinaire Ray Breslin has only just busted out of one of his toughest assignments yet when a mysterious agent presents herself to his team, enlisting his services to test a privatised underground prototype designed to incarcerate the country’s baddest law-breakers. With his ego tickled by the challenge at hand, Breslin agrees to the job, but the brutality he meets with has him suspecting that someone has stitched him up and left him for dead. With a variety of newbie- phobic cliques, a sadistic warden who doesn’t believe his true identity or just doesn’t care and perspex cells that leave him exposed at all times, Breslin struggles to plot an escape, but respected lifer Emil Rottmayer may just have enough connections to get the job done – as long as he can tag along too. Excerpt from Eye For Film located HERE
Breslin receives a lucrative offer from the CIA to break out of a
private super-prison, set up to make the world's vilest villains
permanently disappear. The parallels to Guantanamo Bay are about as
subtle as a billy club to the cranium.
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Escape Plan has been transferred to Blu-ray by Summit / Lions Gate. The film appears to have been shot on digital. It's dual-layered with a high bitrate. It looks excellent - the 1080P offering a strong replication. Daylight scenes bright and clear but the majority of the film takes place inside the prison enclosures. Detail and close-ups are crisp, the few bright colors are rich without embellishment. I see no noise. The film can look fairly flat without much depth showing through. The excessive CGI and 'diagramming' is a little off-putting, IMO. But that is no fault of the Blu-ray transfer which seems to do its job - and then some. Solid presentation, overall.
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Audio :The effects in Escape Plan definitely benefit from the DTS-HD Master 7.1 at a whopping 5042 kbps. Audio pierces tightly around the soundstage - noise springing from all areas and depth rich and imposing. Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play) does the score which can get pretty bombastic at times - in a good way. Well, the action is kept moving and the score pushes and pulls supporting the electricity. There are optional subtitles and m y Oppo has identified it as being a region 'A'-locked.
Extras : Plenty of extras - unfortunately don't help the film too much - but do add some needed value to the overall package. We get a commentary by director Mikael Håfström and co-writer Miles Chapman, discussing the usual - and it's interesting. I gained a bit of respect for the production hurdles. There are three featurettes that run close to an hour - they have interviews with the filmmakers, Stallone and Arnold and a good piece on 'Maximum Security' incarceration. There are also 11 Deleted Scenes.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze January 28th, 2014
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