Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, the eye-patched badass and ex-con forced to rescue the president from the maximum security prison...
Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, the eye-patched badass and ex-con forced to rescue the president from the maximum security prison known as Manhattan Island, in John Carpenter's action sci-fi classic set in the apocalyptic future of 1997.
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88 %72 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
77 %73,113 reviewsAudience score rating
"The sound mix, until the finale, is rarely louder than Snake's elbow busting out an old windowpane."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"It has got an intriguing premise, an effective cast, and it has been expertly mounted."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Although execution doesn't quite live up to the fabulous premise, Escape from New York is a solidly satisfying actioner."
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Variety
Variety"The film plays its social satire broad but strings it along a rail of self-awareness."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"1997 is the year in which the film's events are set, but far from being a bright, progressive future, it is a hyperbolic deterioration of 1981's here and now."
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Little White Lies
Little White LiesEscape from New York | Details
- Runtime
- 99
- Genre
- Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
