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The Escapist (2008) (Single Disc)
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The Escapist (2008) (Single Disc)

Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes & Liam Cunningham

Customer rating on The Escapist (2008) (Single Disc): 3.5 out of 5 stars ( 14 customer ratings )

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Special Features

 

  • *Artwork Subject To Change

  • Audio Commentary by Rupert Wyatt and Dominic Cooper
  • Making Of Featurette
  • Behind The Scenes
  • Storyboard Feature

Review

 

The Escapist stars Brian Cox as Frank Perry - an institutionalized convict who is twelve years into a life sentence without parole.

When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on The Escapist (2008) (Single Disc): 3.5 out of 5 stars

Average rating (14 reviews)

Customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars Disjointed and random

jarnelljones | 06/07/2009 | See all jarnelljones' reviews (1) »

The film started off promising but the style of film was too disjointed and eratic jumping from digging the tunnel and then back to the cells. Plus it had little credibility with prisoners seemiingly to be magically free from thier locked cells to carry out this digging. I was wishing for the film to end

Customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars often missed the mark for me.

rbmusicman | 16/03/2009 | See all rbmusicman's reviews (423) »

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a 'british' film with several faces you'll recognise.
the film set in a jail in the london area tells the tale of a long-term convict who plans an escape.
'frank' studies his surroundings constantly with one thing in mind.
the prison is a harsh place where inmates soon learn the gaurds tend to look the other way and often fail to step in to stop acts of violence and drug use.
this film could have been really tense, all the ingrediants were there but somehow with it's constant flitting between reality and one mans vision of an escape just didn't seem to work for me........shame.
you may want to hire before you buy.

Customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars dull

trevor22 | 04/03/2009 | See all trevor22's reviews (545) »

Whilst brian cox cannot be flawed, the script was poor and the action never really started. It was never nerve wracking like a true escape film and some of the characters were poorly cast. Overall i found it dull and unoriginal.

Technical Details

 

Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh & Damian Lewis

Rupert Wyatt

15 years and over

2008

Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic

English - Dolby Digital (5.1) & DTS

1 hour and 37 minutes (approx)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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