Luckily Russell is the saving grace of the film, infusing that hard hitting “Clint Eastwood” like character in Snake, and making it rise above the C level script that the rest of the film is. Carpenter was already winding down from being the legendary director he once was (pretty much ending his career with Ghosts of Mars a few years later) and even the tough as nails Kurt Russell can’t make it into something it’s not. Most of the problems stem from the fact that lightning has hard time striking twice, and it’s been 15 years since the original. It’s not high art, but John Carpenter is still blending a spaghetti western with post apocalyptic Mad Max style visuals for a weirdly satisfying treat. #Escape from la movie#Nothing is safe, nothing is sane, and the movie has a problem with relying very heavily on 90s CGI, obvious green screen, and some pretty cheesy prosthetics. I mean, we have Kurt Russell and Peter Fonda SURFING down Los Angeles, Bruce Campbell making an appearance as a crazy plastic surgeon gone nuts, adds in a dash of Cubano “La Raza!”, and hits the frappe button. It takes the slightly satirical nature of Escape from New York and just makes it goofy to the extreme. Plissken has to dodge the gunfire of rogue criminals, get in and out from under the nose of gangster Cuervo Jones (Georges Corroface), and get back before a specially ingested super virus kills him in the next 24 hours. Go into Los Angeles, get the black box, kill the president’s seditious daughter, and all his “crimes” will be pardoned. Snake Plissken, legendary gunslinger and rebellious soldier, is taken into custody and given a deal. Without this black box, the madman President has no way of controlling his hose of super weapon satellites, and he needs it back, badly. Langer) has defied his fascist decrees and stolen a black box containing a super weapon device that could obliterate the entire world’s technology, and taken it to the island prison of Los Angeles, where the worst of the worst criminals reside. The President’s (Cliff Robertson) daughter Utopia (A.J. It’s been 15 years since Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) saved the fascist-theocratic futuristic United States, and he’s back once more as the government has need of the lone gunslinger. It’s nowhere near as fun as the original, but it has kitschy 90s charm to it that’s kind of intoxicating. But over the years I’ve softened up to the big goofy satire and kind of enjoy it as a cheesy bit of 90s cheese. Usually there is no middle ground, and I was adamantly one of the biggest haters of the film when I saw it as a teenager in the 90s. The film has gained a rather cult following over the last 24 years, and is firmly in the “love it or hate it” category for most people. is hailed as one of his worst films, and a severe dive bomb for the director, who would start petering out right around the turn of the century as a go to director. And of course adding in a little Kurt Russell at the top of his game. But I guess Paramount decided to up the ante a bit with a new 4K disc (most likely sourced from the same 4k Master that Scream Factory used for the Collector's Edition Blu-ray from 2020, reviewed HERE) to bring it into the next generation of video.ġ981’s Escape From New York is highly regarded as one of John Carpenter’s most iconic action films, blending spaghetti western tropes in with Mad Max esque visuals. I figured that this was the best the film would get being that it's considered one of John Carpenter's weaker films.
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