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AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

mightymothra A vastly over-ambitious amalgamation of Escape from New York, Planet of the Apes, Robocop, and Conan the Barbarian, that is somehow nothing like any of those. It rolls in ridiculous and unexpected directions, flipping from one subplot to the next at rapid-fire pace.It is a mess, to be sure, but my god is it entertaining.The characters are very lovable, and the production of the war-ravaged New York are really quite good. The earnest attempts at horror and action are charming and fun, if constantly goofy.I loved that this flick took itself as seriously as it did. A very fun watch.

Comeuppance Reviews Classic Sopkiw.Michael Sopkiw plays Parsifal, a guy who loves racing cars around the Arizona desert and basking in the love of his fans for beating his opponents on the post-apocalyptic racing circuit. But his world is interrupted when he's summoned to a secret base by The President of the Pan-American Confederacy (Purdom). He's informed that he must break into New York City - which is controlled by deadly gangs called the Euraks - to rescue a woman from their clutches who can perhaps help to replenish the depleted population of earth. He also gets assigned two helpers: Ratchet (Puppo), who's supposed to be one of the strongest men left on the planet, and Bronx (Scalondro), a man who has memorized the map of New York. During their mission, the three men meet tons of trials and tribulations, not the least of which is New York's serious rat problem. They meet many wacky characters along the way, such as Big Ape (Eastman). Will they get out of NYC alive and save the world? Find out today! Despite being the pride of our home state, Connecticut, Sopkiw starred almost exclusively in Italian productions. Between 1983-1985 he appeared in 2019, then did two movies for Lamberto Bava: Blastfighter (1984) and Devil Fish (also 1984), then one more for Michele Massimo Tarantini, Massacre In Dinosaur Valley (1985) then all but disappeared. Just more evidence that the 80's was awesome - Italian productions were flourishing, and stars like Sopkiw had venues to flower and we got to know them all through our local video stores. Sadly, that time is over, but gems like 2019 provide much-appreciated artifacts from that golden time period.2019 appears to be the result of Sergio Martino throwing his hat into the then-hot post-apocalyptic genre. The movie has all the insane outfits, wonderfully decorated sets, innovative weapons and vehicles with crazy crap glued to them that any Italian post-nuke movie would have, and that fans have grown to love and have become accustomed to. Of course that includes flamethrowers and "Pew Pew" lasers. These movies were primarily meant to entertain, and 2019 completely succeeds. It has the ultimate coolguy for a hero, plenty of wild situations intermixed with brutal violence, and the time-honored innovations we often talk about, ensuring an 80's Video Store Classic.Speaking of video stores (though when aren't we?), when 2019 was released on VHS by Vestron, they dropped the 2019 and just went with After the Fall of New York. Could this be because they wanted to bring the similarities to Escape From New York (1981) front and center? Nah. Can't be. But then Joe D'Amato's 2020 Texas Gladiators (1984) presumably picked up where this movie left off? Regardless, the Guido and Maurizio DeAngelis music (using their pseudonym Oliver Onions) is typically solid and appropriately synthy and futuristic. Their soundtrack to Street Law (1974) is hard to beat, but this one is a winner as well.The Media Blasters DVD is a must-own if you're into the Italian post-apocalyptic genre. It looks great in widescreen and even has an intro from Michael Sopkiw. We recommend it.For more action insanity, drop by: www.comeuppancereviews.com

Frank Markland A Mad Max-like rogue soldier is asked by the President of the new world, to go to New York (Which is of course a wasteland) and rescue the last fertile woman on earth, while on the mission he runs into a band of good mutants, savage cannibalistic gangs and a good midget who knows the location of the last fertile woman, while on the way the totalitarian establishment conducts experiments and also want to find the last fertile woman on earth. 2019:Fall Of New York actually predates Hell Comes To Frogtown and Cyborg which basically borrow plot elements from this movie. Of course the main inspiration here is Escape From New York and Mad Max, in fact the main lead looks sort of like Kurt Russell, but with that said this is actually a fun movie. Indeed I was shocked at how invested I was in the hero's plight. I also found many elements interesting, the first one being that our heroes are aided by those devastated physically by the nuclear holocaust, usually they serve as villains but here they aid the heroes in their fight against the normal looking soldiers in the employ of a ruthless cult. Sure the message doesn't mean much and the film is goofy but this element adds likability to the characters and I found myself strangely engrossed in the hero's mission. In fact, for a no-name cast this is actually pretty decently acted. The movie could've used a tighter pace, and the ending seems rushed but as far as Escape From New York rip offs go, this is a very enjoyable product.**1/2 Out Of 4-(Pretty Good)

Woodyanders Eurorack, an all-powerful European mega-conglomerate, has nuked the living s**t out of the good old planet Earth, reducing the once fruitful and hospitable terrain into a harsh, barren, garbage-strewn wasteland populated by grubby malformed folks who are incapable of reproducing. Pan-American, a rival corporation, enlists the aid of tough, scruffy, tight-lipped, but fairly humane survivalist supreme Parsifal (decently played by handsome, unshaven Kurt Russell lookalike Michael Sopkiw) and fellow mangy macho mercenaries Romano Puppo and Roman Greer to venture into the dangerous wreckage of the Big Rotten Apple in order to retrieve the last fertile woman before Eurorack gets their pernicious paws on her first.Although it's clearly little more than a pretty obvious low-budget post-apocalyptic sci-fi/action amalgam of the "Mad Max" films, "The Ultimate Warrior," and especially "Escape from New York," "After the Fall of New York" for all its blatant borrowings still measures up as a compelling, commendable and agreeably exciting cut'n'paste ragbag clone. The always capable and dependable hack-of-all-genres Sergio Martino (his other pictures include "Torso," "Mountain of the cannibal God," and "Island of the Fishman") does a solid, praiseworthy job with the admittedly threadbare script: the pace zips along at a constant speedy clip, the production values are a touch chintzy, but acceptable, there's an ample amount of lively, well-orchestrated action (rip-roaring destructive car chases, brutal fisticuffs, all-out lethal firefights), the not half-bad pseudo-Goblin group Oliver Onions supply a funky, moody score (they also did the groovy music for the lovably lousy earthbound "ALIEN" copy "Alien 2: On Earth"), Giancarlo Ferrando's slick, sparely lit, atmospheric cinematography makes the film look more expensive then it probably was, a generous sprinkling of oddball touches are evident throughout (a tribe of helpful dwarfs, over-sized subterranean subhuman simian dudes, flesh-eating rats, assorted gummy-faced mutant marauders, and so on), the dialogue pleasingly mines a fun line in "guess where you heard this before?"-type nostalgia ("We have ways of making you talk"), the tone is suitably grim, desolate and unsentimental ("If love still had any meaning in this world, then I'd love you"), and the heroic sacrifices made by several people who assist in rescuing the sole fecund female are surprisingly touching.Appearing in colorful supporting parts are Edmund Purdom as a cagey, ruthless, fatally ill CEO, brawny, hulking, enormous 6' 7" behemoth post-nuke movie perennial George Eastman as Big Ape, the hairy, humongous humanoid gorilla ruler of the fetid Fun City sewers, token Asian guy fellow post-nuke movie mainstay Hal Yamanouchi as the hideously scarred nutzoid leader of a bunch of rodent-devouring freaks, the gorgeous brunette hottie Anna Kanakis as a venomous lady villain, and lovely blonde looker Valentine Monier, who's particularly good as the compassionate underground dweller who risks her own life to ensure the success of Parsifal's desperate mission. A junky, energetic and hyper-violent bleakly futuristic action/adventure blast, this bang-up baby is done with just enough verve, style and sheer infectious go-for-it aplomb to qualify as well above average dumb fun.