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Summary: Tries to be Witty...
Review: But this one falls flat on its face. Kurt my boy you are over the hill buddy, please juist retire in style so the rest of us can remember your better and more crowd pleasing works(though I'll watch the movie anyway, I love Snake). As for you Carpenter you just TRIED to hard. If you had approached this with more of the attidude of New York you would have done well, but a SURFING SCEAN my God man what were you thinking? And finally I come to Steve, the only shining light in an otherwise dark tunnle. This is your best work since "Airheads" buddy. Basically-A good action film but nowhere near the classic that New York was.
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Summary: Complete waste of time. Don't spend money on this.
Review: I don't think I've ever written such a caustic review. But after watching this video, I have to say John Carpenter's films are absolutely worthless. I've sat through a couple of his other movies like Vampires and Ghosts of Mars, and didn't really see the point in all the gratuitous violence. Like most of his other films, this film takes place in the future where the world a public junkyard and rusted out drums used as furnaces line the streets. The junkyard being Los Angeles (LA) in this film. Snake Plissken (Russell) has been blackmailed (injected with a toxin that will kill him in 10 hours) to do the government's bidding to reobtain possession of a Electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) targetting unit (a sort of detonator) which has been stolen by the president's daughter (who met up in a virtual reality world with a dangerous terrorist). As far as movie special effects go, this was just plain unbelievably bad. I've generated better computer generated imagery in school than what was used in the film. Equally horrible was the dialogue and acting of the actors. Russell just grunts most of the time. About the only guy who provided some comic relief to this film was Steve Buscemi. Please do not waste your money or your time on this film. I'm not kidding.
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Summary: Escape from ?
Review: I enjoyed Escape from New York, but Escape from LA is a stinker. Very obvious CG effects, some of which only look good if using frame advance, plot holes that suck the life out of the movie, and a very weak attempt at what - -- humor, wit, parody? What's with the "I thought you were taller"? Russell doing Eastwood doing Snake? Pam Grier, still delivering lines from a cue card. Buscemi was very good, the only character with wit and personality. Fonda? Cute, with a great surfing scene. Then there are the action movie cliches, every crashing vehicle explodes, etc.
Overall I have to say this is one star above being a stinker, but I think that is totally accidental.
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Summary: Better than New York.
Review: Escape from L.A. is the flick New York should have been, wild and a hell of a lot of fun rather than being a snoozefest. Yes, Escape from L.A. is pretty campy, but it's intentional and it sure doesn't hurt the film at all. Plus, L.A. is given a much better exploration than NY was, resulting in a very fun adventure film.
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Summary: Escape from LA (Big Orange is a Deportation Center)
Review: In the year 1998, too many Mexicans are jumping the border and crime is continuously increasing. In the year 2000, a terrible earthquake happens separating California from the U.S. coastline. A presidential candidate decides to turn it into a deportation zone to send off illegal immigrants and scum not worthy of living in the country. In 2013, the President's daughter hijacks Air Force Three and sneaks off to the new island once split away from the states. Only one man has the skill for the job to bring her back and return what she has stolen and taken with her. Snake is back! Plisken has once again been hired by the police force of the future to complete an objective for the sake of the President. This time he does it in Los Angeles. 15 years later after New York. Snake Plisken did it once. He can do it again. Good Action Movie! But not as good as the first. Only better special effects and greater quality.
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Summary: What a sequel !
Review: Escape From New York is one of my favorites I keep watching.But
this so called sequel is just beyond criticism.It really takes great skill and ability to make such a bad movie after 15 years.
Congratulations for nothing!
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Summary: This sux
Review: Escape from LA is one of the worst movies i've seen in a long time.Here are the things that make this movie a waste of time and money. Good lines repeated to many times.
Characters introduced with out any introduction of
who or what they are doing. badguys being badguys for
no reason that you know of.stupid actoin scenes.
characters introduced to late in the movie.the
main character is put in captivity then he
escapes then he gets caught in a different
form of captivity then he escapes.you don't
get exilerated when a shootout is happening.
all these reasons and many many more make this a bad bad bad movie.i would give this no stars but it's not an option.
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Summary: A Fun Action Film from John Carpenter
Review: This movie is an absolute pleasure to watch. It's fun, exciting, and extremely funny. Sure, the acting, the story, and the action is cheezy, but you cannot deny that it's fun to watch. "Escape from LA" is a pure action movie that makes fun of the "action movie" at the same time it's succedding as one. Watch it!
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Summary: Sad Story, Got A Smoke?
Review: Snake Plissken is my hero.After I watched this I fell like the coolest guys are the ones who don't care about anything.My favorite Snake lines are "President of what?" and "Hell of a team".I wish he really would have shut down all of the world's power. Oh yea, the movie is great one of the best i've ever seen.
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Summary: Escape the negative reviews of LA!
Review: It was a remake but it had better effects than the original. It was more fun and showed just how bad people really are in this world today. Roger Ebert even likes this movie!!!!!!!!
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