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Rating: 6 stars

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bounty hunter post-apocalyptic rescue Los Angeles earthquake island rescue mission terrorist electromagnetic pulse tsunami surfing cult

All movies seen on 06/29/2023

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Escape from L.A. (1996)

Directed by John Carpenter

Action | Adventure | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, schofizzy, ashe5k

Overview

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.‘s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Rated R | Length 100 minutes

Actors

Kurt Russell | Stacy Keach | Steve Buscemi | A. J. Langer | Bruce Campbell | Pam Grier | Peter Fonda | Georges Corraface | Robert Carradine | Michelle Forbes | Valeria Golino | Leland Orser | Jeff Imada | Al Leong | James Lew | Breckin Meyer | Ina Romeo | Peter Jason | Jordan Baker | Caroleen Feeney | Paul Bartel | Shelly Desai | Julien Cesario | Cliff Robertson | Thomas Rosales Jr. | John Koyama | Leo Lee | Stuart Quan | Wyatt Russell | Jamie Lee Curtis

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Still goofy and nowhere near as good as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK but this was more enjoyable than I originally remembered. It certainly borrows the glider assault from (L.A. WARS? Some other movie?) which is both ridiculous and fun. One of my complaints about this is that everything, and everyone, look too clean. It doesn’t have the grittiness that NEW YORK did, but maybe that’s an intentional nod to West vs East coast?

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