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To me, this movie is perfection.

Simply A Masterpiece

One of my all time favorites.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I will just write simple and direct.This movie is great,I have good feeling for HQ Films and this is one of them. Ratings on IMDb and Rotten are totally unfair and absolutely too low. But good movie lovers know this and thats why so much positive reviews. My realization is that if you want to have quality life full of purpose,happiness and fulfillment it is very much important that you stop listen to others,specially so called "top critics",many times I would rather called them "top fools" he he :) But seriously listen to your own heart and I can guarantee to you that your life will be happy,joyful,meaningful and full of love, but if you let others to guide you,same life will be dead,fearful,dark, dull,colorless... I seriously "hate" people who write things like "dont waste your time on this movie" ... I would say this is plain stupid, what is nectar for some will be poison for others and opposite. Of course there are many movie which are really bad, but even when masters like JOhn Carpener made bad movie, this will be still good movie for many. So whole life you have been a sheep guided by others, so you are not in tune with yourself, of course you will made wrong decisions. Learn to trust your instincts and life will be fun, and I guarantee that you will enjoy many movies that either common reviewers or top critics,have rated low ! You will smile cause what was poison for others, was nectar indeed for You !

I once saw John Carpenter on a UK television show in the late 1980s discussing horror films. He was about 40 but looked like he was in his 60s and smoked like a chimney. Now he is a few years shy of his 70th year he probably looks like he is 120 years old. Maybe he should had realised by now smoking is bad for you so do we really need all the wise ass cracks about smoking from Snake Plissken in this movie?Escape from New York was a low budget cult film with cheapo effects (James Carpenter was one of the F/X guys.) Escape from LA is a big budget film with cheapo effects. Most of the budget presumably went on Kurt Russell's salary who also gets a writing credit.Russell reprises his impression of Clint Eastwood as he is tasked by the deranged President of the USA (Cliff Robertson) to recover a remote control to a super weapon stolen by his daughter.What we get are scenes clearly filmed inside a studio with a mundane script, little humour, dull characters and bad CGI including that surfing scene. Even the action scenes look uninspiring. It seems Carpenter only made this film for the pay cheque. Most of the actors here are just wasted ranging from Pam Grier to Stacy Keach.I have heard that Carpenter hurt by the financial failure of The Thing is one filmmaker who does not give a damn, hence the misanthropic ending to this film.However Escape to LA was hyped up before its release and arrived at the theatres as a damp squib.

Totally bitchin' 80s camp. If you like that sort of thing you should like this. This is not "serious" film. It has decent production values and the special effects are just corny enough to be just right. This is not meant as a deep commentary on anything (or at least I hope not, since that would mean I totally missed it). This is just fun movie-making, and also, I feel the need to mention, a solid step up in production values from "Big Trouble in Little China", which I also watched recently.Really, just kick back and watch Snake battle his way into and out of L.A., and ignore all of the people who just don't get campy movies.

At times 'Escape From L.A.' feels more like a parody of 'Escape From New York' than a sequel, and it's clear that Carpenter was going for more of a satire vibe here; A satire of (then) current political culture. A satire of big budget Hollywood action movies. A satire of Southern California culture. The problem is that it overwhelms the entire movie, and everything else feels like an afterthought to his quest to zing his targets.There are still a few worthwhile moments tucked in amongst all of the flotsam and jetsam, and Kurt Russell doesn't miss a beat after a fifteen year absence from the role of Snake Plissken, but it's just not enough to save this well-intended misfire.