Escape from Death Block 13

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I hate to admit this, ( but I will ) the movie is not good. I don't bother reading the negative reviews, but this movie is not good at all. The acting is horrible. The plot is horrible. Even the fight scenes is not entertaining. The script is horrible. The whole movie is horrible. This is not the first bad movie I have seen, and it definitely is not the worst I have seen. No idea why I continued watching it until the end, I guess I was hoping that it would have gotten better and it never did. I did not recognize any of the actors and It is definitely a very low budget film. So, yeah this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

I truly enjoyed this crazy Indie film adventure. It was action throughout, crazy fist fights and gun fights. It delivered what it was meant to deliver. If you're a fan of Indie action, this one is a fine example.

Robert Bronzi (Death Kiss) is back in another low-rent 80's style action flick & it's damn good fun. Charles Bronson lookalike Bronzi plays Mike Kovacs a foreign man in America to find out why his brother died & it leads him to a drugs smuggling operation & into the prison system. Bronzi is sent into a deadly prison as an undercover informant for the US government & must face the brutality of it's corrupted guards & evil warden. Death Block 13 is a prison action film crafted in the style of those Awesome old school one's we grew up watching on video like Tango & Cash & Fortress & Lock-up & Death Warrant, but this one is made on a very tiny budget. The effects are ridiculously cheap & tacky & the fight scenes are slow & bizarre just like most of the weird characters here but it's fun in it's cheap grindhouse type of way. I couldn't help but enjoy it's craziness. Of course this isn't as good as the blood soaked Masterpiece Death Kiss but it's still a fun retro action flick. Director Gary Jones is a great movie Director within the low-budget B-movie genre & has gave us such Awesome gems as SPIDERS (a Favourite of mine) & CROCODILE 2: DEATH SWAMP (Great Sequel) & MOSQUITO (a Cult Classic B-movie) & he's done alot more good work in T. V & other flicks but those three films are GREAT Creature Feature B-movies. Often the Audio isn't very good in the prison scenes but it's forgiven for what director Gary Jones (Spiders) managed to pull off on an obvious small budget. Bronzi is good at just looking tough & looking like Bronson & carries himself like an old school 80's action hero. There's some cheesiness of course but the action scenes are decent & the action-packed & bloody prison escape last act is well worth the wait. The big muscled bald guy called Bunyan is decent along with Bronzi & i liked the 80's retro feel to it all. The score is really good also. Other actors throughout are crappy but that really doesn't matter in a cheap action flick like this. I got 80's action vibes from Death Block 13 so it done it's job in my opinion. Bronzi does have a strong screen presence & is a perfect low-budget, B-movie old skool Action hero & i hope he has a good career ahead. A low-budget Action B-movie that is bloody good fun. I'm looking forward to more Bronzi action flicks.

Bronzi's back! That's right - the sixtysomething Hungarian action star born Robert Kovacs who was performing in a European Wild West stage show when director Rene Perez saw his photo on the wall of a bar and thought it was an undiscovered Bronson movie. Since then, he's been in From Hell to the Wild West, Death Kiss, Cry Havoc, Once Upon a Time in Deadwood and now this movie. After the death of his brother, Mick Kovacs (Bronzi) heads to America to get justice and get sent directly to the Pleasant Hill Penitentiary where he learns that his brother's death was no accident. So he does what he does best: he kills everybody. Much like The Shawshank Redemption, this movie was filmed in Ohio's Mansfield Reformatory. Unlike The Shawshank Redemption, this movie is filled with CGI bullet wounds and a thin plot, but come on. You know what you want, this movie has it and you're going to probably love it as much as I did. This is the kind of movie perfect for a lazy weekend afternoon or late night drinking session. Gary Jones also directed Mosquito and Boogeyman 3, as well as working on the visual effects for 68 movies in the last decade of so. As for Bronzi, his next movies include Mat Rats, a wrestling movie in which he plays The Dago and two Scott Jeffrey-directed movies, Exorcist Vengeance (yes, Bronson and exorcism combined, as they always should have been) and The Gardener.

To me, the movie felt like a fan tribute film to the late actor. Tons of cheesy CGI and and effects in this film. The acting in this film is a tad better than what we saw in previous Bronzi films, with Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs added to the cast. With him being a recognizable face from Welcome Back Kotter and other TV shows from the past, it brought some credibility to the film. Even the character in this movie goes by "Kovac" which is the same last name of a character that Charles Bronson played in a show called "Man With a Camera." You even see it at the end of the film when the character that Bronzi plays makes the same hand gesture that Paul Kersey makes at the end of the 1st Death Wish film. This is one of those films that you could watch once, but will not want to watch it again. A better effort than others from the production team, but nothing that you could call "great."

I really enjoyed this film . Loved the special effects and Debbie Scaletta as the warden was amazing !! Debbie's character offers an opportunity for her to show her range in acting Chris Hahn continues to bring it. Great stunt work in this film as well The story was much better than most action films .The acting was overall great . Escape from Death Block 13 is a film you don't want to miss !! Very entertaining and keeps you on the edge of your seat from beginning to the end . I thought Robert Bronzi did a fantastic job and although I never seen him in other movies I became a fan after this movie . Ray Szuch as Pappy was a crowd favorite . I liked how the birds were used for symbolism .Plus the use of crow sounds in certain scenes were brilliant . I don't normally want to watch a film more than once but I can see myself watching this film over and over .

I had to see this movie since I've missed the rise of Robert Bronzi. His look is uncanny to that of the late Charles Bronson. At some angles you would easily think it is him. Almost creepy. However, about this movie. Hardly original concept. Guy gets in trouble, framed, goes to jail, gets a promise of reduced sentence, gets into fights and everyday prison dilemmas. As far as the story goes, it's not that bad, in spite not being an original idea (in any way), what's particularly bad with it, is the acting, or should I say lack of it. I do appreciate the use of non-actors as they usually shows more realistic expressions, but unfortunately some over-act, smirks and just doesn't give that feeling that they know how to act. You notice this with the most of the inmates when they're in frame. Can't help to almost focus more on their so called acting rather than the movie itself. Choreography is also really really bad. Clearly someone haven't seen enough fight scenes (while filming, from other angles etc) to make it believable and authentic looking. You can see blows a mile away, almost in slow motion in some scenes and clearly see them missing by inches. We can only hope that some director sees this and it's potential (Not a bad story, really, just poor writing) and do a remake with Bronzi. Maybe even make it play out during the 80-90's so that it would fit better with Bronzi's fighting style, then hire someone who can write a proper plot, re-cast a few of the inmates, and above all, direct the actors so that they look the part. I think they could do better with CGI which is really visible at times, and also leave out some of the gore or at least not have it in frame like they did. Instant lowering of the movie expectations! I rated this 5, but that extra star was for Bronzi and that he's a near copy of Bronzon, 4 is for the story, which I would've given otherwise. As far as directing and thereby controlling actors, I'd rate 3, possibly 2.

Just turn your brain off and enjoy the action! There were plenty of moments that put a smile on my face. This is just a fun movie that delivers what you see on the cover! Sure this is low budget and they used CGI for the blood. But the direction is really tight and all the action is shot well! If you're looking for Shakespeare why did you watch this movie anyway. It's not a big budget Hollywood action movie. It's a fun homage to old action movies with a Bronson look alike that's having a good time playing the part because he's a fan Himself.

Of you that likes to watch a movie at higher speeds than usual, use 1.5 ffwd and mr. Bronzi becomes the legendary charles bronson , yet again!!!! He is still the spittin' image of the cultstar of the 70's, and he must be charles bronsons twin brother born 30 years later as a result of their mums teratoma birth, and its a shame tto say, mr bronzi has become even better on the acts. We all know the 70's spaghetti westerns, with its telephonic sounds and whipsnapping sound effects, well this is the 2020's tortellini thriller, with fist fights and gunfights and gore and splatter that just a b- movie can bring forward, its a very well done charade, a multitude of prison break movies turned into one completely new one, where the reaper man never reaches the main cast, and where retakes is an unknown procedure, and the hallelujahs of glorious hudlums covers the mould eaten prison walls and the special effects is made outta the first version of photoshop. So a low level production it is, it has all the glitches of soundboom shadows and production crew reflecting in the pilot sunglasses, but its just a fictional rump made outta neanderthalic capabilities amd a storyline written with the commandments of prisonlife as the inspirational source. Its a funfare for all of us loving bud spencer and terrence hills brawlouts and barfights in the 1970, no more intellect is required. Well its not a feinsmaeckers movie, let that be said from a grumpy old man, that has mr bronzi rolling up as the new vigilante favourite on the silver screen. Its fodder for the black out party, ill give it an 8 for the clichees and action comedy and choice of cast, especially the prison caracters.