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http://urllio.com/r2p5gSnake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back from Escape From New York. An earthquake has separated Los Angeles from the mainland. In the New Moral America, all citizens not conforming to the new laws (no smoking, no red meat, no Muslims in South Dakota) are deported to L.A., now a penal colony. The President's daughter has stolen a doomsday device and has fled to L.A. It's up to Snake Plissken to find the President's daughter and retrieve the doomsday device before its too late.
John Carpenter's "Escape From New York" wasn't bad, and was a hit movie, but this sequel - some 15 years later - is pathetic....and one of the most offensive anti-morality films I have ever watched. The hero is typical Kurt Russell (until the last few years when he seems to have mellowed in his roles): an anti-hero, anti-social and super macho man. The storyline of this movie is so anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-family, etc., that is is past ridiculous and downright laughable it's so absurdly left wing. This film should be put in vault as Exhibit A of exactly how much hatred the film industry has against God and Believers. You don't have to wait for them: many are in the first 10-15 minutes, and some more good ones at the end.<br/><br/>Examples? Well, the story is that the absolute worst thing has happened in the USA: those narrow-minded religious people, led by a President who prays but orders his own daughter executed, have taken over the country! They have exiled sinful people to Los Angeles, which is now an island. The President's daughter, portrayed as some fanatic with a machine gun a la Patty Hearst, has stolen some dangerous object and Russell is assigned to go retrieve it. The daughter, by the way, wears a Christian "True Love Waits" button on her blouse. They make sure we see that. <br/><br/>The President has moved his headquarters from Washington to Lynchburg, Va. (home of the hated Rev. Jerry Falwell). Meanwhile, Muslims, atheists and even sweet-looking innocent kids have all been exiled to L.A. by this hate-spewing Bible-touting President! I'm telling you: it's unbelievable. Picture something like this coming out against any other group and getting away with it. This absurd bigoted screenplay was co-written by Russell, Carpenter and someone named Debra Hill.<br/><br/>The only positive parts of this film are the special effects, a few funny jabs at L.A. and surfers and Steve Buscemi, who always seems to play someone interesting.
I remember once seeing John Captenter on British television in 1979 on a program about cult sci-fi movies (he did "Dark Star" as a college project). When asked about "Close Encounters of the third kind" he told the interviewer that he thought the director (Spelberg) had lost control of the movie part way through, and I agree with him 100% on that. Interestingly, during the interview, he was sitting outside of the old house in "Haddonfield"(sp?) since he was midway filming "Halloween".<br/><br/>The problem for me is that with the exceptions of his first few movies ("Halloween", "Assault on Precinct 13", "Escape from New York" and "The Fog"), his movies give me the appearance of lost control, from someone who started out with close to perfect filmic vision and directorial control. What went wrong? I watched "Escape from LA" the first night it came out in Mid-town Manhattan, and there were boos from the audience, not at the villains, but at the movie. Parts of the movie are very good - the action scenes (I'm assuming not a second unit production) are really well directed, but rehashing the plot of Escape from LA" was a bad mistake. But it was good to see people lining up around the block waiting to get into see a Carpenter movie, even if briefly.
Compared to Escape From New York, the weapons are bigger and the violence is more extensive, although it’s toned down by today’s excessive standards. There are also greater special effects this time, involving holograms and nuclear-powered submarines. But Escape From L.A. is more enjoyable in a playful way.
Director John Carpenter commented just before the release of Escape From L.A. (1996) that IF this movie was successful then he would consider a third movie and that the only place left for Snake to escape from would be Earth. "Escape From Earth" was just an idea - Carpenter never even gave that title, it's just something people assumed it would be called.<br/><br/>Escape From L.A. evidentley was not a commercial success and so the idea of a third movie went no further than Carpenter's comment. Depends on your point of view. Snake's decision is to essentially turn Earth's history back to the Victorian era, pre-electricity, where a man like him would flourish as a self-reliant gunfighter and despeardo. On the other hand it's suggested that humankind has deteriorated into tyranny so he essentially tears a corrupt society down and replaces it with a more egalitarian society 'Cabin in the Woods' style instead. a5c7b9f00b