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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 09 August, 1996 DVD Release : 15 December, 1998 |
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Escape From L.A. description 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 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | This shouldn't have been made at all! |
| This movie is a complete rehash from start to finish. There isn't one original idea or anything that sets it apart. Story and plot wise from Escape from NY. A pure rehash.
The story is exactly the same. EXCEPT. The prison island LA happens to break off from the US due to an earthquake. There all the outlaws are sent to it to live their lives anyway they feel. Then comes Snake. He's forced to go there and this time retrieve a device. Under the same stipulations as the first. This movie seriously got on my nerves big time! It followed the exact same formula except it had more action and better special effects. He11 Snake was again wounded in the exact same leg as the first. The ending is the same also. To be honest you can watch either one of these first and enjoy one and not like the other. If you want lots of action and special effects. Get this one. If you want less action with a bit more steatlh. Watch escape from NY. Me, I'm just going to ditch this one and keep the first. Its also weak on extras too. For those who want to know. |
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