Starring: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson Directed By: John Carpenter Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 15, 1998 Running Time: 101 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: August 09, 1996
Product Description: Snake Plissken is sent to post-earthquake-devastated Los Angeles to retrieve a doomsday device in the hear 2013. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 20-DEC-2005 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video: Kurt Russell reprises his role as Snake Plissken, of the near-future thriller Escape from New York, in this reworking of that film's basic premise. Instead of New York being a maximum-security prison, this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. This penal colony is where the film's future rulers, something very like the Moral Majority, send those deemed guilty of "moral crimes." 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. The film's dark dystopia, with its satrical elements taking aim at our dwindling freedoms, and the eclipsing of democracy by narrow interests, are more the subject this time. As a result the action suffers, and the plot devices are sometimes weak and predictable. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike. Steve Buscemi's performance as a weasely hawker of L.A. tour maps is a standout, and the presence of Peter Fonda and Pam Grier adds to the fun. In fact, just the sight of Fonda surfing down the flooded corridor of Sunset Boulevard is reason enough to check this movie out. --Jim Gay
Escape from L.A. ^ The year is 2013. Like New York, Los Angeles has been turned into a prison island for the United State's most undesirable criminals, like New York, Los Angeles is surrounded by a wall so no convict can escape from L.A and once deported to L.A. you can never return to the American mainland which has become a moral society. 16-years after he escaped from New York, One-Eyed former soldier Snake Plissken now the United State's most wanted outlaw is once again given another job for his freedom by the new President and L.A's security commander Malloy. Snake is sent into L.A. to recover a doomsday device that shuts all power sources on Earth from brutal terrorist Curevo Jones and the President's runaway daughter Utopia who has been brainwashed by Curveo into stealing the doomsday device, and the President personally wants Snake to eliminate Utopia for betraying her country. Like New York, Snake is injected with a engineered virus which will kill him in 9 hours if Snake fails the mission, if Snake succeeds in completing the mission, he will be given the antidote. Entering L.A, now inhabited by criminals, runaway teenagers, prostitutes and brutal gangs. Snake sets out to recover the doomsday device and kill Utopia, as Curevo and his army of terrorists prepares to invade the United States and can Snake escape from L.A. before the virus kills him in 9 hours. Kurt Russell is brilliant as Snake. This movie is great.
Escape from LA ^ As a SCI-FI Fan one cannot help from enjoying a classic movie from the 1980's. If you like the first movie Escape from New York you will like this movie.
Just a "bare-bones" release, but still awesome ^ "Escape from L.A." is very similar to "Escape from New York" (the plot is basically the same), but it is still an awesome film that deserves to be watched (at least) once.
Unfortunately, (at the time that this review is posted) there is no Special Edition release of "Escape from L.A." ("Escape from New York" did get a Special Edition release), so all we get in this release is just the movie.
Dissapointed ^ Do not waste your time on this movie, it blows. This sequel is not even close to being an "Escape From New York" which I did like. Can I get a refund Amazon?
Remake/Sequel of the 1981 super hit ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK...Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is back in this futuristic movie where Los Angeles is the home for the criminals (separared from the U.S. where the "good guys" live) and the President's Daughter is missing there with a "Black Box" that Snake is forced to recover.
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