This is a movie review for "Escape from L.A.", released August 9, 1996. We watched this on June 7, 2020.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Run Time: 1 Hour and 41 Minutes
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable Cast
Kurt Russell ... Snake Plissken
A.J. Langer ... Utopia
Steve Buscemi ... Map to the Stars Eddie
Bruce Campbell ... Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
Cliff Robertson ... President
Plot
Snake Plissken, after having saved the President from New York, is sent on a mission in Los Angeles to recover a device. This device controls machines in orbit that can wipe out electrical devices in a directed area. Snake is to go recover this device from the daughter of the President of the United States, who has been brainwashed to blindly follow a radical man who is trying his darndest to be like the Cuban revolutionist Che Guevara. Can he get the device in the allotted time frame? Will the world be safe from electro-magnetic pulses destroying what is left of humanity and civilization?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3/5 - *SPOILERS*
This movie could have used a lot to be much better and much more enjoyable. A lot of terrible green screens looked like bad comic book drawings. The characters that had been in the city of L.A. were fairly not too diverse from each other, which made the "we blocked off this place and made it into an internment/prison" idea to seem less real. It was honestly much less interesting than the "Escape from New York" movie. I was waiting the whole movie for something intriguing to happen, but it never really did. By the end of the movie, I was rooting for Snake to become the villain that "saved" the world from technology and the fighting, especially after seeing the President be a yellow-belly as****e and ordering his daughter to be executed via an electric chair. I did, however, like how Snake used the military's logic to fool them and used their technology (hologram projection) to fool them, even if it didn't seem feasible. I also thought it was interesting that he decided it was best to wipe out all technology on the earth and walk away saying "Welcome to the human race" like it was nothing. The ending might leave you wanting but it was something of closure at least.
Honestly, I could watch this movie again but I definitely did not like it as much as I liked "Escape From New York". I would say that "Escape from New York" is a good suggestion but that you could skip "Escape from L.A.". Some movies just don't need a second film, like this one, in my honest opinion. Feel free to watch it if you like!
That's my movie review. Thank you for reading. More reviews to come eventually (if I can get myself to sit down to type them), especially since I am over a year behind on movie reviews. *shrugs* I'll get to them when I can.
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