Sylvester Stallone has singled out two films as particularly damaging low points in his career: the 1992 action-comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and the 2018 sequel Escape Plan 2: Hades. The article portrays both as reminders that even an established action star can make projects he later disowns, with Stallone’s own unusually harsh comments underpinning the assessment.

Stallone called Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot the worst film he had ever made, while Arnold Schwarzenegger later said he feigned interest in its poor script to encourage his rival to accept the role. Stallone described Escape Plan 2 as the most badly produced film he had experienced, despite being part of a franchise whose 2013 original co-starred Schwarzenegger and performed relatively well.