Torrin-McFinn77 As the followup to Escape From New York, I didn't pay much attention to this movie until I entered high school. I'd heard someone say it wasn't that great, but I told myself that it was just one person's opinion and it was nothing to lose sleep over. So I rented one Spring Break and watched it.Turns out it wasn't that great after all.As one of the many of my friends and acquaintances who didn't care for it, I must say I now agree. In my opinion, the special effects looked like they belonged in a video game and some of the characters felt two-dimensional. But there were some interesting scenes that held my attention, though I wouldn't say there were many. As of now, I watch some of the clips on YouTube just for the hell of it. Still, I don't think I'll watch the whole thing from start to finish again.

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)

recognizablethemes The film exults in its imagination of the greater Los Angeles area as a ruined metropolis, with the Santa Monica Freeway well underwater and the Universal Studios theme park beset by real sharks instead of the Spielberg variety. In the action climax, Disneyland--stripped of its familiar branding following a corporate bankruptcy--is invaded from the skies as Plissken drops in, gun blazing. (It's not the movie of a man who's entirely happy with the machinations of Hollywood studios.) Carpenter later said he wanted the scene to be reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, which figures. With its aggressively whimsical dream logic, the only way this movie really makes sense is if Snake wakes up in Kansas in the final reel.What's memorable are the film's gaudy visions of excess. Escape from L.A. has a brighter and more colorful look than the resolutely dim Escape from New York, which may have been a deliberate decision to embrace a sunny Southern California palette, though I'm guessing it also had something to do with the presence of cinematographer Gary Kibbe, rather than the wizard Dean Cundey, behind the camera. The friendlier look goes conceptually with the picture's more overtly jokey approach.Escape from L.A. is at least partially model-led on westerns-- Plissken is actually described at one point as a "gunfighter"-Pam Grier plays Hershe--it's pronounced like "Hershey," thus it's an insistent play on race as well as gender. See, Hershe is a trans-woman with hairy 'pits and an uncharacteristically deep voice who used to be a buddy of Snake's known as Carjack Malone. When Snake finds her, he gets in close, runs his hand up her thigh to her crotch and declares, "The more things change, the more they stay the same," before intimidating "Carjack" with the gun he found there. When she insists, "I'm no longer Carjack Malone," he hisses in response, "I don't give a f'ck what you are." Yes, Plissken has story reasons for threatening Hershe. But, absent that greater context, the film plays here exactly as though Snake is threatening a hate crime.The surprisingly character-driven script, too, wouldn't fly today. Rather than focus on elaborate set pieces and action sequences, Carpenter, Hill, and Russell give their actors ample time to talk and double-cross each other.The most satisfying payoff of seeing Escape From L.A. today is in realizing that 1996 imagined 2013 so as to fantasize about regressing.

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.