Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again--this time on the Left Coast. Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. It's 2013 and L.A. is now an island maximum-security prison off the coast of California. Snake has 10 hours to find a doomsday weapon that's fallen into the hands of revolutionaries before he dies of a virus with which he's been injected. But the action is clumsy and... unimaginative: lots of shootouts and very little suspense. Even the bad guys aren't particularly inventive; only Pam Grier, as a transsexual gang leader, strikes any sparks. Russell growls his way through the role but can only blame himself: He cowrote the script with Carpenter. --Marshall Fine [show more]
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Kurt Russell returns as eye-patched renegade Snake Plissken. This time he has to wade through the ruined Los Angeles of 2013, his mission being the recovery of a doomsday device. Los Angeles is now ruled by the South American revolutionary Cuervo Jones, who has obtained the device from the President's daughter, Utopia. Plissken has to stop him before he destroys the planet, and also before he dies from a virus which the President has injected him with to ensure his co-operation.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape From New York - with even more futuristic thrills and slam-bang action! Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device. Don't miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd., shoots hoops at the Coliseum, dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes (Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, George Corraface, Cliff Robertson, Pam Grier and more). Actors Kurt Russell, Michelle Forbes, Pam Grier, Peter Fonda, Peter Jason, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Valeria Golino, Cliff Robertson, Jeff Imada, Georges Corraface, A.J. Langer, Bruce Campbell, Robert Carradine, Leland Orser & Breckin Meyer Director John Carpenter Certificate 15 years and over Year 1996 Screen Widescreen 2.35:1 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Additional Languages German Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; German ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour and 36 minutes (approx)
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