Papillon (1973)
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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While it's clearly no "Papillon" as this one feels like a big dress up film compared to that grueling 1973 Steve McQueen picture, the moments are fairly entertaining and engaging thanks to some good performances and occasionally sharp writing.
Fawcett, accompanied by an aide de camp (Robert Pattinson, erstwhile idol of the teen-vampire movies, now looking more like Dustin Hoffman in Papillon ), loses interest in his surveying job and instead pursues an archaeological find.
Chuck's obsession with escape takes on the same manic proportions as Steve McQueen in "Papillon" and, when he finally breaks free, you feel his thrill.
Jim Caviezel plays the super-prison’s softspoken, sadistic warden, whose butterfly collection suggests he’s a big fan of “Papillon.”
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