2018 · action · thriller · crime
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 33m2018
Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.
Our read: Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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