Escape Plan 2: Hades
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| German title | Escape Plan 2: Hades | ||
| Original title | Escape Plan 2: Hades | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2018 | ||
| length | 96 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Steven C. Miller | ||
| script | Miles Chapman | ||
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Mark Canton , Randall Emmett , Robbie Brenner , George Furla , Qiu Jie , Zack Schiller , Su Xing |
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| music | The Newton Brothers | ||
| camera | Brandon Cox | ||
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Carsten Kurpanek , Vincent Tabaillon |
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Escape Plan 2: Hades is an American prison - Action - Thriller from the year 2018 , that of Steven C. Miller was shot. It is the sequel to the 2013 film Escape Plan and the second of three parts in the film series of the same name. In the film, Sylvester Stallone and 50 Cent can be seen, who are taking up their roles from the first film. Dave Bautista , Huang Xiaoming , Jaime King , Jesse Metcalfe , Titus Welliver and Wes Chatham join the cast. Escape Plan 2: Hades was released direct on DVD in the United States, but received theatrical releases in countries such as Russia on June 28, 2018 and China on June 29, 2018. Escape Plan 3: The Extractors followed in 2019 .
action
Ray Breslin continues to run his security firm with some success, with senior members Hush and Abigail as well as newcomers Shu Ren, Jasper Kimbral and Luke Graves serving as field operators. During a hostage rescue mission in Chechnya, Kimbral, who trusts his computer algorithms, deviates from the mission's objectives. This results in one of the hostages being shot, later dying from her wounds, and Breslin Kimbral firing.
A year later, Shu is contacted by his family to protect his cousin Yusheng Ma. Shortly to announce his telecommunications company's breakthrough satellite communications technology, Yusheng was targeted by a competitor, Ruscho. After attending a party in Bangkok, Shu defends Yusheng from masked men, but both are drugged and abducted with M-26 tasers.
Shu is later found in an unknown arena where inmates are forced to fight. Shu is forced to beat another prisoner and wins. He meets his fellow inmate Kimbral, who explains that the prison is called Hades, where he has been held for several months. Luke, Hush, Abigail and Breslin try to find Shu after he and Yusheng disappear.
Drawing on Breslin's training to formulate an escape plan, Shu meets guard Gregor Faust, who calls himself a “zookeeper,” and learns that Faust wants Yusheng's communications patents in return for her release. Yusheng tells Shu that he buried the technology for fear it could be used to hijack a nuclear launch system in the world and they decide to flee.
Finding out that Hades is funded by the same mysterious organization that funded the tomb, Breslin seeks help from an old contact, Trent DeRosa. As Luke follows Shu's disappearance, he is caught and transferred to Hades.
Shu befriends the prison cook and learns that the prison layout changes every night. Kimbral reveals that another inmate, a hacker named Count Zero, knows the layout. Shu deserves his trust and Count Zero gives him the information, but reveals his identity in the process. The next day, Shu, Luke and Kimbral are brought for questioning and forced to watch Count Zero presumably be executed. Kimbral reveals that he is actually running Hades; In the year since he was released from Breslin's team, he designed and built Hades to prove that his algorithms work and that his prison is literally inevitable as it is run not by human guards but by an automated system.
Breslin and DeRosa find evidence of Kimbral's connection to Hades. Knowing that Kimbral wants revenge, Breslin allows himself to be captured and sent to Hades. With a communications device hidden in his tooth, Breslin stays in touch with Hush as he attempts to break through the prison's defenses from within. Breslin, Shu, and Luke formulate a new plan while enlisting the help of Yusheng the cook, Count Zero's friends, and other inmates. They manage to disable the prison's security cameras and, with Hush's help, temporarily shut down Galileo, the prison's automated defense system. They break into the medical center and try to gain control of the prison systems and get into the control room. The zookeeper responds with a force, and several inmates are killed in the subsequent shooting and the group is separated. DeRosa follows his own instructions and locates the prison from the outside.
Yusheng overrides the prison's power systems, alerts DeRosa to the prison entrance and lets him break in. Looking for an exit, Shu kills the zookeeper in a knife fight when Luke and DeRosa run into the control room. Breslin takes on Kimbral in hand-to-hand combat while DeRosa saves Luke from the prison guards. Breslin defeats Kimbral and together with DeRosa deactivates Galileo for good. Shu and Yusheng find an exit and are safely extracted by Abigail and Hush. Breslin is contacted by the group behind Hades and vows to track them down and uncover them.
Reviews
Filmstarts.de describes the film as follows: “Although the plot and setting are a lot more interesting than in the previous version, the film weakens where it counts: The star presence of Sylvester Stallone and Co. has been greatly reduced, and you are looking for pithy slogans in vain apart from a few fistfights, the action seems uninspired. ”With Rotten Tomatoes , the film only convinced 15% of the users.
Web links
- Escape Plan 2: Hades in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Escape Plan 2: Hades . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 181259 / V).
- ↑ Filmstarts: The filmstarts review for Escape Plan 2: Hades. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Escape Plan 2: Hades at Rotten Tomatoes (English) , accessed April 24, 2020