GAOLBREAK is another low rent British thriller from the reliably poor Butcher's Film Studios. These films all tend to last for an hour or so and contain very little content other than lots of talking from actors who were never seen or heard of again. The plot of GAOLBREAK concerns a criminal gang who must break one of their number out of prison so that they can commit yet another robbery.
For a thriller, the thrills are in short supply here, and there are just a handful of set-pieces involving safecracking, wall-scaling and the like. The action quota is virtually nil, as is the suspense. Instead what we get is a bland, Roger Moore-lookalike leading man, lots of stodgy melodrama, and some random dancing interludes which sap the pacing still further. It's not amazingly poor, but it's pretty worthless.
For a thriller, the thrills are in short supply here, and there are just a handful of set-pieces involving safecracking, wall-scaling and the like. The action quota is virtually nil, as is the suspense. Instead what we get is a bland, Roger Moore-lookalike leading man, lots of stodgy melodrama, and some random dancing interludes which sap the pacing still further. It's not amazingly poor, but it's pretty worthless.