Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) wrote the book on prison security. But writing books is boring so he takes on jobs to personally test the security of prisons. That is, for a large fee, he gets himself "admitted" to a facility and proceeds to break out, and then sends a nice report to the warden outlining the facility weaknesses. With the stage set, Stallone takes on a big, top secret, government black ops, big money job. It is a bit different, but his ego gets him to take the job and he is put into a prison that is really unbreakable. The warden has a well-worn copy of the Breslin book on his desk. Inside, Stallone meets up with Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), and the two work together to break the prison. This isn't a real novel tale, and it (obviously?) isn't built around Oscar caliber acting. But it is a clever script that was well paced and provided a consistently interesting story arc. Probably safe to categorize it as a high quality, mid-level heist film.
3 stars (out of 5)
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