Buy from eBay Escape from L.A. Release Date: 09 August, 1996 Director: John Carpenter Staring: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach Studio: Paramount Studio Rated: R (Restricted) Buy this film on eBay Amazon.com Customer Reviews   Rated 5 out of 5! just POSSIBLY THE BEST EVER,action hero SNAKE IS BACK, QUIET,mad and ready for action speak more than WORDS, action, HERE, its the sAME thing,same formula an EXACT near REINACTION,interoPERTATION OF ITself, being done,with JUST FOR THE HELL off it,BUT more BUCKS TO SPEND,maybe the future is more polished than our past, but who cares, ITS more about ACTION, IS BETTER, THERES A RETRO SEVENTIES WHICH MEANS i dont get it from kids in the NINETIES, ignorance about SNAKES seventies good LOOKS, BESIDES HES GOT ONLY ONE TATOO,ALthoughHES AN ACTION hero through and through, HE DOESNT NEED TO CURSE, his exasperations and if LOOKS COULD KILL, smirks ,TOO retro MACHINE GUN DOWnned FUN, FOR kung fu . which he does when he lLOOSES THE gun.or is cornered, this movie is semiWIRED real, nor HARD WIRED TECKNO gloomDOOM, HE RIDES A MOTORCYCLE he doesNT FLY THROUGH THE AIRlike hes IN a MATRIX, HES MUCH TOO level headed for that, he, HES PART OF THE NEAR AND NOW, dead LA, A MAXIMUMIZED EVER QUIVERING PLAYGROUND of FOR THE sameMIND BROOD MANIFESTATIONS OUT TO GET snake, bad asses,grave robbers plastic surgeons, down memory LANE PARTY REVLRERS, EVEN CATCH THE ULTIMATE SURFER SLACKER EASY RIDER,STONER,biker silver surfer, PETER FONDA, AND snake bein the good sport he is catches an insanly huge GODZILLA big wave that washes through the streets of LA, AND ITS ALL ABLAZE OF action glorified in ADVENTURE, BEFORE CYNICSM became the vogue, IN EVERYDAY AND BECAME, just a marketing tool TO THIEVERY,FORGET AND HAVE FUN,IN THE more simpler.   Rated 4 out of 5 Snaaaakkkeeeee Plissssssskeeeen Kurt Russell reprises his 12 year departure role as Snake Plissken who is captured and brought to LA for a little assignment, sorta like the original with Plissken going into LA and bringing someone out, he saved the president in the first one and now he has to save the new presidents daughter in this one. so he goes with a virus in him to LA. wonderful disasters in the streets with cool music and far out characters, especially a weird role by Bruce Campbell(Evil Dead 1&2, Army Of Darkness) as the surgeon. Russell also plays a little bit of basketball, funner from the first one which was good also.   Rated 1 out of 5 God Awful Film, Stick With Escape From NY.... There aren’’t enough negative words in the English language to adequately describe this film. If you want to see how a lousy sequel mars the image of a great original, look no further. What was John Carpenter thinking when he made this stinker? Not to mention what was Kurt Russel thinking when he read the script...and agreed to star in it! The plot is a pathetic retread of Escape from NY. Every notable plot device from the original is copied here, and copied poorly. The special effects look like they were done by a novice Apple II user and look extremely phony. Skip this waste of celluloid and stick with "Escape From N.Y." You won’’t be sorry.     Related Films: Escape from New York