TOP FIVE: Manliest Movies Of 2013

1) Escape Plan

This is the Manliest Movie of 2013. It came at a time when we needed it most. In the midst of a girlie-man takeover of movies, where everything up there on the screen looks like the celluloid equivalent of a bag of Skittles, comes some respite. The big guns have been brought up, this is a beer and steak movie. A genre favorite – the prison break out movie (up there with the manhunt movie, these are obligatory Manly genres), combines forces with Stallone and Schwarzenegger. And not a moment too late.

Just when I thought the game was up and there were too many vegetarian movies coming at us, our batteries get recharged and hope reignited. Arnie is his old towering figure of monstrous charisma. Funny, huge screen presence, clearly enjoying himself and armed with hilarious put-downs and one liners. Is it hyperbolic to say that a great many people will die happy after this team up? I know that something big has been ticked off my list. The real deal.

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