Escape from L.A.
Directed by John Carpenter5.755%39%
The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike.
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- 匚卂尺ㄥJune 4, 2025Kurt Russell is back as the king of cool "Snake Plissken" in the sequal to Legendary Director John "Halloween" Carpenter's classic "Escape From New York". When Los Angeles is hit by an huge Earthquake and is cut off from the Mainland, the Authorities wall it off to use it as the perfect prison. Once again anti-hero, Convict and Prisoner "Snake Plissken" is sent In on a mission of retrieval. Kurt Russel is once again terrific as the sneering, wise cracking "Snake Plissken" proving once again this brilliant Character creation is beyond cool. The story is decent enough, although the plot is basically just a retread of the classic original. The issue with the movie is simply at times it's poor visual effects and sub standard CGI. The underwater Submarine sequence in which "Snake" travels to Los Angeles is badly done. The visual effects look like a poor College project, and the Surfing sequence later on in the movie isn't really much/if any better. "Escape From L.A, is a big go for broke movie, which sadly doesn't have the budget to match its lofty ambitions. That's not to say its a bad movie, if you overlook the poor Special Effects its a terrific and enjoyable romp, its just sadly pulled down by its disappointing Special Effects. Its fun, but it just could, and should have been so much better.
- marshalseaMay 11, 2025It's rubbish, but knows it is. Go for the ride, and don't expect the same genius as Escape from New York.
