Luckily, Eddie is driving by, so Snake jumps off the surfboard into the car, and has him take them to meet Hershe (Pam Grier), the only other person in town who hates Cuervo as much as Snake. They ride the waves down the canyon, as Snake figures out a way to get to the Happy Kingdom in Anaheim, the staging area for Cuervo’s invasion. Snake ends up in a canyon where he meets up with Pipeline (Peter Fonda), an aging surfer. Snake refuses to shoot her as ordered, and is himself wounded by Eddie. He escapes into the sewers with the Black Box and Utopia follows, wanting to go home. Snake is able to complete the challenge and escapes before Cuervo can shoot him. Snake is taken to the Los Angeles Coliseum, to take part in some gladiatorial games, where there is never a winner. Eddie rescues Snake, but then tranquilizes him, revealing he represents Cuervo. ![]() Unfortunately she is shot by the Korean Dragons. They manage to escape from Beverly Hills, with Taslima wanting to come along to help. The Che Guevara looking Cuerbo Jones, and the President’s daughter Utopia ride in a victory parade, celebrating the upcoming invasion of America. He is of course extremely unhappy with being coerced into service, again. His hand is forced after being injected by the Plutoxin 7 virus, which gives him only 10 hours to complete his mission. At the USPF headquarters outside Los Angeles, Commander Malloy (Stacy Keach) and Brazen (Michelle Forbes) “recruit” Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to return the device and execute Utopia. His daughter, Utopia (AJ Langer) has absconded with a Black Box, containing a remote control to launch the Sword of Damocles from orbiting satellites around the globe, and landed in Los Angeles to help Cuervo Jones (Georges Corraface) mount a third-world revolution against the United States. The President was installed for a life term and set up Directive 17, which made Los Angeles a deportation center for morally corrupt citizens to be expelled from the new Moral American theocracy. On Auga major earthquake rocked Los Angeles severing it from the mainland as its own island. Since then, the United States Police Force was formed, an ultra-conservative President (Cliff Robertson) was elected–moving the White House to Lynchburg, VA and installing a new moral code in America. ![]() It is 2013, 16 years after Snake Plissken helped to rescue the President from New York. ![]() Presented below is the trailer for the film.Įscape from LA title card. There’s more mayhem and craziness in the sequel to Escape from New York. He cheats and kills them before the can lands. He tosses a can in the air, letting them know they can draw when it hits the ground. The audience is reintroduced to Kurt Russell’s antihero Snake Plissken, who is in a showdown with four men with guns. The audience is reminded that any infractions of these rules will lead them to be imprisoned on the island of Los Angeles. But then it gets weird, such as no red meat or no freedom of religion. The trailer starts like many theater trailers, reminding audiences about the rules for watching a film. Unfortunately, it does not deliver the goods, seeming more like a rehash of the earlier film without the same novelty, and only half the energy. was the much awaited successor to John Carpenter’s 1981 cult-classic Escape from New York. Took a look around, see which way the wind blow.Įscape from L.A. ![]() Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, but Russell is given too free a hand with the character and the story, and the film failed to restore Carpenter's former box-office clout.729 Well I just got into town about an hour ago. This belated sequel traces a more overtly satirical narrative over the first film's plot, on which it offers a more Libertarian variation with broader comedy, sillier set pieces, a more self-parodic lead performance, and softer targets, many of them associated with the film business. Sixteen years after the events of Escape from New York ( 1981), the US is a morally totalitarian police state which deports its undesirables via the seismically detached island of Los Angeles (see California), into which Snake Plissken (Russell) is dispatched by the current president (Robertson) to retrieve a device stolen by the rebellious first daughter (A J Langer) that threatens the global shutdown of Power Sources. Cast includes Steve Buscemi, Bruce Campbell, Peter Fonda, Valeria Golino, Pam Grier, Stacy Keach, Cliff Robertson and Kurt Russell. Written by Carpenter, Debra Hill, & Russell, based on characters by Carpenter & Nick Castle. Paramount Pictures in association with Rysher Entertainment.
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