SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

heinigrunbaum-786-20424 I wish John Carpenter, one of my favorite directors since my early teenage years, had taken this project more seriously. Escape from L.A. completely misses the atmosphere and seriousness that Escape from New York had.In Escape from New York you were on your toes all the time. A shadow in the background or a flash in the distance made you tremble in your seat, and Snake Plissken gave you the true feeling that the whole world could go fxxx it self for all its wrong doings.Escape from L.A. seemed more like a poppet show that didn't expect to be taken seriously. A meet up of good old friends having fun hanging out on a set together and getting paid to do so at the same time. Nobody was focused at the project at hand, but I am sure they all had a great time doing the movie.The character of Che Guevara was misplaced as most of the characters were. Sad. This could have been a great John Carpenter movie even with the same copy-pasted script that tried too hard to be a more futuristic version than Escape from New York was.I somehow wish Escape from L.A. had never been made. Just like Godfather part III totally ruins the magnificent end of Godfather part II (another sad story in the history of great movies).Only the character played by Pam Grier was interesting, but that part was only taken seriously by Pam Grier herself, not by John Carpenter.You never realize that Escape from New York is a somewhat low-budget movie. The team worked their way of that and made a true masterpiece (that I personally have rated with 10 stars here on IMDb). With Escape from L.A. they had more money and what not, but it truly seems like a low-budget flick that no one would even remember if it wasn't for the cast, John Carpenter, and of course; Escape from New York.Sad… sad when great directors loses their "touch", but it happens all the time. I still love John Carpenter for all of his great movies, but this one the world and the John Carpenter-legacy could have been with out!

Python Hyena Escape From L.A. (1996): Dir: John Carpenter / Cast: Kurt Russell, Stacey Keach, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Steve Buscemi: Crappy excess in filth that rehashes the superior Escape From New York. Here the future Los Angeles 2013 has been separated by an earthquake and anyone who breaks a moral law is sent there. The President sends Snake Plisskin to L.A. to find his daughter, kill her, and retrieve a satellite control box she had. He is injected with a virus, which is another dead steal from the first film. John Carpenter pretty much directs his worst film with this piece of garbage. This is from the same director who made one of the great horror films in Halloween. Kurt Russell reprises his role as Plisskin and appears to be more super human. Stacey Keach plays the stereotypical villain who attempts to render Christianity the bad guy. Peter Fonda has a useless role as a surfer as a bad send off to his Easy Rider performance. Also featured is Cliff Robertson in not one of his best moments. Steve Buscemi plays a character named Map Of The Stars Eddie. If that is the case then perhaps Buscemi should fire his agent. Escape From New York wasn't the best in terms of special effects but it had a genuine futuristic vision and intriguing characters. In this forgettable sequel the special effects are horrible within a film that belonged in a junk yard, preferably burned within a pile of every other existing copy. Score: 0 / 10

The-Social-Introvert When I watched L.A, the long-awaited sequel to the Carpenter classic Escape from New York, I enjoyed it. My now I'm sure you've realised my taste in movies is utterly terrible, right? Well, unlike most people who waited over a decade for Snake Plissken's return, I wasn't even born when Escape from Ney York came out. Therefore I didn't have that hype building up. If I did, I'm sure I would have disliked it, much how I didn't like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull after waiting ages for an Indiana Jones sequel. Like Ghosts of Mars, I can't argue that it's a good movie, because it's not. It's cheesy, campy, the special effects are laughably bad and the movie is more of a remake of New York than a sequel anyway. But I can't help it if I enjoyed the cheesiness and campiness. LA was Carpenter's attempt at pushing a long-in-production sequel into reality and from what I've heard he wished he hadn't bothered. I had a ball watching it however. Russell slips back into his signature role perfectly and the b-movieness around him is a delight to watch – there's a scene where he has to put a basketball into a hoop in an allotted time or die, and even a part where he surfs a wave down a street. Nowhere near as impressive as the original, which is legitimately a good film. Oh and whisper it, but the budget for LA was a whopping $50 million (compared to New York's measly $6 million), making it the most expensive Carpenter film and one of his biggest bombs. In fact, both Escape films work perfectly at showing what was right with Carpenter's earlier career and what was wrong with his later work.Best Scene: The part where Snake's submarine device swims through the sea is when I stopped taking the film seriously, but I'm gonna go for the ending, which was one of the ballsiest I've seen.

ma-cortes Exciting and spectacular rescue into Los Angeles destroyed by earthquakes, floods, mudslides, and become a top-security prison . This thrilling picture results to be an inferior sequel to Escape from N.Y. , the latter become a real Cult Movie . It contains mystery , chills , noisy action , thrills , fights , social critical , bits of humor with tongue-in cheek attitude and a weird atmosphere with dark and surprising ending . Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell, he was the only cast member from the original film to appear in the sequel)is once again called in by the United States government (Stacy Keach as officer , Michele Forbes as deputy and Clift Robertson as President) to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported and finds itself under siege by violent gangs . A previous war hero named Snake Plissken gone rebel must execute a daring adventure and bring up a powerful artifact in twenty four hours . Snake must recover it and along the way facing off villains like Cuervo Jones (George Corraface) . He's only helped by a sympathetic rogue underling (Steve Buscemi who took the part in this film to help fund his directorial debut, Trees Lounge) , and action women (Valeria Golino, Pam Grier) . As Snake Plissken to get in and out of Los Angeles . The film is a comic book plenty of action , fun , adventures , suspense , thriller and surprise-filled entertainment . Magnificent plethora of characters with decent performances by its entire cast . Middle-budget by Paramount Pictures , in fact its President Sherry Lansing was a fan of "Escape from New York" and wanted John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Debra Hill to make the sequel in the same vein as the original. Kurt Russell as tough and valiant renegade is terrific . At the beginning of the film, Kurt Russell wears his costume from the original film, which still fits after 15 years . Kurt Russell not only came up with but wrote the entire ending of the movie , in fact it was the first and only writing credit . Escape From LA was caught in development hell for over ten years . A script for the film was first commissioned in 1985 but John Carpenter thought it "too light, too campy" . An initial script was written , but it remained dormant until Carpenter and Kurt Russell got together with frequent collaborator Debra Hill. It was Russell's persistence that got the film made ; Snake Plissken was his favourite character, a character he loved and wanted to play again . Support cast is frankly good such as Peter Fonda , Cliff Robertson , Valeria Golino , Stacy Keach , Pam Grier , Bruce Campbell , Michelle Forbes , A.J. Langer and Peter Jason , Carpenter's usual . The picture contains an imaginative and memorable production design by Lawrence G. Paull . Colorful and glimmer cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe . John Carpenter also made the atmospheric music score along with Shirley Walker . The movie likely to satisfy action enthusiasts and Kurt Russell fans .Director John Carpenter is in familiar ground with this well-done tale on the style of comic books and old Sci-Fi serials . His films often feature important visuals shown from a video screen , as the end-of-the-world transmission from the future in ¨Prince of darkness¨ (1987), the Norwegian recordings of the expedition to uncover the aliens in ¨The Thing¨ (1982), various TV sets and the general anti-TV motif in ¨They live¨(1988), etc. ¨1997 escape from N.Y¨ was realized during his best period in the 70s and late 8os when he directed classics as ¨Halloween¨, ¨The fog ¨, ¨Christine¨, ¨They live¨ , ¨Big Trouble in Little China¨ and ¨The thing¨ . The sequel ¨Escape from L.A¨ rating : average but entertaining . The movie will enjoy to noisy action fans but packs a roller-coaster thriller and wholesome amusement . The film will appeal to John Carpenter enthusiasts . A third sequel was going to be made titled Escape from Earth which would have had Snake escaping Earth after a dark matter experiment. However, the negative reaction to this film prevented the sequel from being developed. As the movie was a notorious failure on release, making around $25 million , just half its budget , at the US box office. Many reviews criticized the film for being too violent or for being too similar to the original film .