- Actors: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson
- Directors: John Carpenter
- Writers: Kurt Russell, John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Nick Castle
- Producers: Kurt Russell, Debra Hill
- Classification: To be announced
- Studio: Paramount Home Ent
- VHS Release Date: 29 Sep 1997
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CUVS
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 36,854 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again--this time on the Left Coast. Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. It's 2013 and L.A. is now an island maximum-security prison off the coast of California. Snake has 10 hours to find a doomsday weapon that's fallen into the hands of revolutionaries before he dies of a virus with which he's been injected. But the action is clumsy and unimaginative: lots of shootouts and very little suspense. Even the bad guys aren't particularly inventive; only Pam Grier, as a transsexual gang leader, strikes any sparks. Russell growls his way through the role but can only blame himself: He cowrote the script with Carpenter. --Marshall Fine
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Russell top notch / Movie a bad joke,
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This review is from: Escape From L.A. [1996] [DVD] (DVD)
Have to say the sequel is not a patch on Escape from New York. Even to view it as a stand alone it is still a poor offering. Backlot studios give no real sense of location, poor acting (other than Russell and Emmanuel) no doubt due to the confusing effect of the quick fire dialogue between the cast that is short, yet so bad it kills all pacing.
Poor set design, poor visuals. View only as a curio.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Snake P. What a Guy!,
This review is from: Escape From L.A. [1996] [DVD] (DVD)
First New York and then LA. Is the follow on any good, yes it is. This film has a better budget and is ten time better than the first. Views keep in mind this film is all about the fake plastic world that we live in but it's also a fun action adventure. I read a book last month call the The Hacker Hunter: 1 I have to say it was a bit like this movie, right down to the eye patch... If you don't have this film get it. Kurt Russell on form!!!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Politically Thought-Provoking Caper,
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This review is from: Escape From L.A. [1996] [DVD] (DVD)
This is a clever and crazy film - especially notable, on a basic level, for its wacky special effects which make it look more 1950s than 1990s, and which need to be enjoyed in the spirit of this film.
On a more considered level, there's a lot going on, politically. Right up to the end, it is not clear on which side John Carpenter is standing - if he is standing anywhere - nor the intended take-home message. From the start, it is clear that Carpenter is vilifying, among other things, a certain kind of extreme theocratic Christianity. In the USA, that is a hugely political thing to attempt to do. The film bombed at the box-office and perhaps this is part of the reason. The anti-Christian message is pretty well to the fore. For example, the President is portrayed throughout the film as a lunatic who will kill his own daughter - who "needs to pray" and who clutches a Bible. For some people, that will be offensive. However, we don't find spiritual or ideological refuge in the opposing side either! The President's opposite number, the leader of the prisoners on Los Angeles island, is a Che Guevara lookalike, called Cuervo Jones - who initially seems like some kind of hip Third World alternative, until we discover that he likes to murder people for fun in the disused sporting arena. While the prisoners on Los Angeles island are leading a much "freer" existence than the inhabitants of the US mainland - unlike the mainlanders, they can smoke, drink alcohol, eat red meat, own guns and wear fur coats - they are not using their freedom in any constructive way. For example, on landing on the island, the first thing Snake Plissken finds them doing is machine-gunning each other out of car windows. They all seem - witness the stadium scene - to be psychopathic hooligans who use their freedom and their inhibition from "rules", simply to kill each other. If Carpenter comes down on anyone's side - and I am not entirely sure that he does - then it would tend to be on the individualistic side of Snake Plissken. The final scene of Plissken with the cigarette in his mouth, appears to represent some kind of homage to this "American Spirit" of individualism. In reality, though, neither the extremist individualism of Plissken, nor the theocracy of the US State, nor the revolutionary psychopathy of Cuervo Jones answers satisfactorily the question which this film posits. That is, how, and by whom, do we wish to be governed?
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