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Blu-ray Review: “Prison Break: Event Series” Is Suspenseful & Gripping

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Seven years later, thanks to information provided by T-Bag, Lincoln and Sara discover that Michael is still alive in a Yemen prison.

To be perfectly honest, I never watched “Prison Break” when it was on TV, not even the original series but when Fox sent me the Event Series, the show that aired on TV earlier this year, I decided to check it out. And I was very pleasantly surprised. For those, like me, who may not have watched the original series, it brings you up to speed and fills you in on everything that happened and then we cut to modern day as Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) and Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) have moved on with their lives under the assumption that Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), Lincoln’s brother and Sara’s ex-husband and father to their child Mike (Christian Michael Cooper), is dead. Seven years have passed and T-Bag (Robert Knepper) is finally out of prison but as he is being released, he receives a package from Yemen. Upon opening it, he sees what looks like a vague image of Michael in a prison cell, with a mosque in the background, and in the letter, instructions that are to be handed to Lincoln.

Understandably, when he appears, Lincoln wants to hurt T-Bag, based on their past but when he is handed the photo of Michael, along with some pretty ambiguous instructions, Lincoln then approaches Sara and fills her in on everything. They are both skeptical, the image of Michael is very poor quality and could have been faked but Lincoln insists on going to Yemen, in the off-chance that Michael is alive. Along with the help of their friend Benjamin (Rockmond Dunbar), a recently converted Muslim, he informs Lincoln that he knows people in Yemen, people who could help them with their plight. Once in Yemen however, they are able to enter the prison to visit Michael but when he is brought out, he claims not to know them and that his name is Kaniel Outis, a terrorist known for his atrocities against mankind. Lincoln knows something is up and while visiting him, Benjamin secretly recorded him and once again, like before, Michael has new tattoos on his body, which Lincoln and Benjamin soon decipher, and realize that Michael is telling them his next move.

When Michael eventually does escape, along with some cell mates, the group of men must try and make safe passage to a small town on the coast, but with ISIS taking control of the city and its airport and train stations, they must quickly improvise an escape route, before being caught. Back in the states, Lincoln sends Sara video proof that Michael is alive but when she realizes that someone in her life could possibly be a traitor, the person known as “Poseidon,” a rogue CIA operative who wants Michael dead, she must keep up the facade that everything is okay, until Michael and Lincoln return. But when her new husband is shot and wounded by a mysterious stranger in their house, her world begins to fall apart and she must move quickly in order to save her life as well as Mike’s.

“Prison Break: Event Series” is sensational entertainment, and the plot twists come fast and furious. Having watched this season, I am now going to go back and watch the original series and get caught up completely. I don’t know if Fox is planning on producing any more seasons of “Prison Break,” much like the original series “24” which starred Kiefer Sutherland, they have both ended with a sense of finality. Of course, that has never stopped Hollywood before but there are only so many times the same man can end up in prison time and time again before the fans begin to groan with implausibility. I think “Prison Break” has finally reached its end, and I’m okay with that because the finale was well worth the wait.

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James McDonald

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, James is a Movie Critic with 40 years of experience in the film industry as an Award-Winning Filmmaker. He is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association.