Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

coolgod ....Percure's the microfilm from the evil president trump after his daughter Ivanka Trump run's off with the super-villain Jones & in the process has put the entire known universe in jeopardy!! Trump's top general jame's maddis call's on the services of the one man in the world who knows what the order of rules are in crisis that one should follow, having learned this from his great mentor julius benedict. Luckily (again) they have just captured the snake who is not in the best of mood's again & basically is forced to undertake this monumental task all by himself - & to top it off, stacey keach is not his biggest fan!& this farce of a film that is merely a thinly guised parody of the original, continues to pretend that it's a serious one until the very end. If it were open about how it was a parody rather than a sneaky sly snake parody then it could of at least been a lot funnier. Instead the lying critics who know fine well how cynical this movie is, try to force feed you the notion that is all just bad acting/unintentional humour & in short want to treat the viewer like their an idiot who can't tell that this is an insult; to those that happen to be a fan of the very good original (who this movie is pretty much mostly targeted at) - it's a blatant 'ha ha ha' with a middle finger raised at you on the part of john carpenter (The A ss-F ucker)

Leofwine_draca This is a misfiring sequel on all accounts to John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi classic, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. I call it a sequel, but it's more like a remake: a few things are changed, like the city and the characters, but for the most part this plays out exactly like the first film. The reason for this is that Carpenter and Russell just wanted to have some fun by returning to a film they both loved making. Fair play to them, but this is a film that never needed to be made: it's utterly cheesy, full of pathetic special effects, and completely predictable. Fans might enjoy it, but you'll need a lot of goodwill to get through this one unscathed.I'll admit now that I like Russell, and I liked his reprise of the character Snake Plissken. Sure, there are some cheesy one-liners and dumb moments, but he's okay. Another plus is that Carpenter has assembled a fantastic supporting cast. Steve Buscemi is around, acting weird as usual (but more over the top and not as funny); good old Stacy Keach is on hand as an officious bad guy and very good he is too, the best in the film; Pam Grier is cast as a transsexual; Peter Fonda is an aged hippy surfer taking part in the film's cheesiest effect, where he and Russell 'ride' a tsunami; Bruce Campbell is unrecognisable (apart from his voice) as a mad plastic surgeon. The only weak link is George Corraface as the bad guy. Okay, he's dressed up as Che Guevara, but that doesn't make him a good bad guy: he's actually incredibly wishy-washy and no threat at all. His fight scene with Russell is laughable.The plot is a string of action scenes, some okay, some poor. The motorbike/car chase was the highlight for me. After that it becomes too involved in parading a string of odd characters while throwing in all the movie clichés imaginable. It is fun, in a kind of low rent way I suppose, and there's a twist ending which isn't bad, but it's not enough to make this a good film by any stretch of the imagination.

Duncan Gosseyn I'll admit, I'm not a huge fan of Escape from New York. It has a ton of plot holes and none of the characters were all that likable. I usually like Kurt Russell's performances (he was quite good in The Thing, Executive Decision, and Tequila Sunrise) but I didn't really like his performance in EFNY. I thought he was trying too hard to talk and act like Clint Eastwood. But I decided to give Escape from L.A. a chance and I actually liked it quite a bit. And I kind of have gained a bit more respect for the original after watching EFLA. I think the original could have been like this if it had a larger budget. EFLA has basically the same story but its budget allowed it to be far more over the top. There definitely are plot holes in ESLA but I just didn't care.I really like how EFLA doesn't take itself seriously at all. There's this one scene where Snake Plissken surfs off a tsunami onto a car driven by this one guy played by Steve Buscemi. And Kurt Russell is far better here than in EFNY. You'd think a character who unhesitatingly sends the whole world back into the Dark Ages would be unlikable but Snake Plissken was actually a likable character.Some of the special effects are bad and the sets aren't the best. But the story just has a charm that is lacking in other films with far better visuals, like the insanely imbecilic 2009 Star Trek reboot (I really, really, really hate that movie). It's too bad Escape from Earth is probably not going to get made. I'd really like to see what happens to Snake after the events of this movie.

851222 Greetings from Lithuania."Escape from L.A." (1996) is an ultimate flick with one of the screen bad asses - Snake Plissken himself. This is a great action / sci-fi flick that features a lot of action, very cool settings and a simple yet entertaining plot. Kurt Russel once again star in a underrated but iconic role of the 80's hero, or in this case maybe antihero, as Snake Plissken never was a "save the universe" type of a guy, he as well as John Macklane were dudes that always were in the middle of events that they didn't want it to be. There are cool special effects, great cameos, cartoonish but cool for the flick characters and so on.Overall, "Escape from L.A." is a very cool and unfortunately underrated gem from 90's. It features everything that pure escapism picture could have. Do your self a favor and check this picture - 2 hours of pure escapism is a guaranty.