- Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes
- Directors: John Carpenter
- Writers: John Carpenter, Nick Castle
- Producers: Barry Bernardi, Debra Hill, Larry J. Franco
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Bmg Video
- VHS Release Date: 5 Jun 2000
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CIVE
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,621 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables. Kurt Russell puts his Disney days (he played the squeaky clean hero in such films as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, 1970) behind him as the nicest bad guy in the picture. All comic-book sensibilities and macho posturing, this is one of writer/director John Carpenter's better brainless escapades, brimming with snappy one-liners and explosive action scenes. However, the film lacks tension and some believability even within the realm of SF fantasy. Even when it fails to gel, though, it always manages to amuse, thanks in great part to a varied and unusual supporting cast (watch for Ernest Borgnine as a cabdriver and Isaac Hayes, one-time soul singer and now best known as South Park's chef, as The Duke of New York). Followed in 1996 by Carpenter's overdone and campy Escape from L.A. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Video Description
New York city is a maximum security prison operated by the newly formed United States Police Force. Completely walled in and virtually escape-proof, the city is a corrupt and devastated wasteland inhabited by 3 million criminals. When the President's plane crash there, he is taken prisoner by a gang of marauding criminalsand there is only one man who can get him out alive.
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58 of 66 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
The quality of this blu ray release is horrible.
There is a lot of damage on the negative used for the master. I have had the opportunity of comparing this with a version recorded from HDTV and there is an incredible difference both with regards to the print damage but also to the quality of the picture since this is an upscaled master and therefore not in true HD resolution. In one of the scenes I compared lee van cleef's gold bracelet. On this blu ray the bracelet just looks like a gold colored piece of string while on the HDTV version (that is only 720P) you can count each individual link on the bracelet. The HDTV version also lacks all the "print damage" that is evident on the master used for this "blu ray".
There is also a lot of edge enhancement going on in this master.
This release is an insult to blu ray owners and John Carpenter fans alike...
Avoid!!
Personally I won't be buying any optimum blu rays since I feel that I have been swindled and cheated. If optimum makes good and releases a remastered blu ray I might forgive them.
There is a lot of damage on the negative used for the master. I have had the opportunity of comparing this with a version recorded from HDTV and there is an incredible difference both with regards to the print damage but also to the quality of the picture since this is an upscaled master and therefore not in true HD resolution. In one of the scenes I compared lee van cleef's gold bracelet. On this blu ray the bracelet just looks like a gold colored piece of string while on the HDTV version (that is only 720P) you can count each individual link on the bracelet. The HDTV version also lacks all the "print damage" that is evident on the master used for this "blu ray".
There is also a lot of edge enhancement going on in this master.
This release is an insult to blu ray owners and John Carpenter fans alike...
Avoid!!
Personally I won't be buying any optimum blu rays since I feel that I have been swindled and cheated. If optimum makes good and releases a remastered blu ray I might forgive them.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Forget the averaged four-star rating. This results mostly from older reviews of the DVD. To me it also does not make sense to rate the US-Version here (although it is fair to make the people aware of it), because this is simply not the actual product that is to be reviewed at this place. And, BTW, 99% of the customers would not be able to view the US-version anyway, because almost no-one owns a multi-region (or region A-locked) BluRay player here within the EU.
In short: The story is a typical action flick from the 80s, starring Kurt Russell, and directed by John Carpenter. Not a masterpiece, but entertaining.
Frankly said, the BluRay is not even a bad joke, but pure fraud, and obviously nothing more than a (lousy executed) upscale from a DVD master. O.k., "Escape" is not an absolute classic, but it is also definitively not a obscure niche product, and I guess Optimum consider themselves a serious company, so it is simply not tolerable to sell this movie in such form.
Optimum/Studio Canal should simply take this crap off the market, stop ruining their reputation as a label. I for myself will in the future think twice if I should trust a Optimum release enough to buy it.
In short: The story is a typical action flick from the 80s, starring Kurt Russell, and directed by John Carpenter. Not a masterpiece, but entertaining.
Frankly said, the BluRay is not even a bad joke, but pure fraud, and obviously nothing more than a (lousy executed) upscale from a DVD master. O.k., "Escape" is not an absolute classic, but it is also definitively not a obscure niche product, and I guess Optimum consider themselves a serious company, so it is simply not tolerable to sell this movie in such form.
Optimum/Studio Canal should simply take this crap off the market, stop ruining their reputation as a label. I for myself will in the future think twice if I should trust a Optimum release enough to buy it.
26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This Blu-ray looks terrible. Edge enhancement (meaning halos around every person and object) is so strong that the film has a completely artificial, almost disconnected look (like printed from a collage made out of paper snippets). I feel double-crossed by Optimum and will be very careful with their future releases.
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very dated film
America filled up with so many criminals, they ended up abandoning Manhatten, and turning it into a massive prison, surrounded by the military. Read more
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Buy the US dual Blu Ray/DVD combo only.
From the mid seventies to mid eighties John Carpenter in my opinion released a bunch of films equal to if not better then any director who ever lived. Read more
Published 8 months ago by J. Pike
hmmmmmmm
i would just like to point out blu rays r the worst invention ever made! i dnt know why any1 would ever buy 1, STICK TO DVD
Published 9 months ago by Ms. Roslyn Jane Lloyd
MGM (USA) edition comment
PLEASE NOTE - most of the bad reviews relate to the Optimum Home Releasing (UK) version of this movie, NOT the superior and well regarded MGM (USA) edition!
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Ultimate edition of JC's classic
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Published 15 months ago by Mr. J. M. Zielinski
Worst blu ray I have ever watched
This movie looks rubbish in blu ray. They have done a bad job in transfering it. The image is looks washed out and looks really blurry in some parts. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Duke Sheldon
What's wrong with Broadway?
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Published 17 months ago by S. Meadows
Poor
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action. I think the film also was too slow. Read more
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