ActionAdventureScience FictionThriller

Escape from L.A.

- Snake is back.

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.

Release Date : 1996-08-09

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Paramount PicturesRysher Entertainment

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.

Cast

Character Name : Snake Plissken

Original Name : Kurt Russell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Malloy

Original Name : Stacy Keach

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eddie

Original Name : Steve Buscemi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Utopia

Original Name : A. J. Langer

Gender : Female

Character Name : Surgeon General of Beverly Hills

Original Name : Bruce Campbell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hershe Las Palamas

Original Name : Pam Grier

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pipeline

Original Name : Peter Fonda

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cuervo Jones

Original Name : Georges Corraface

Gender : Male

Character Name : Skinhead

Original Name : Robert Carradine

Gender : Male

Character Name : Brazen

Original Name : Michelle Forbes

Gender : Female

Character Name : Taslima

Original Name : Valeria Golino

Gender : Female

Character Name : Test Tube

Original Name : Leland Orser

Gender : Male

Character Name : Saigon Shadow

Original Name : Jeff Imada

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hershe Gang Member

Original Name : Al Leong

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hershe Gang Member

Original Name : James Lew

Gender : Male

Character Name : Surfer

Original Name : Breckin Meyer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hooker

Original Name : Ina Romeo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Duty Sergeant

Original Name : Peter Jason

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Anchor

Original Name : Jordan Baker

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman on Freeway

Original Name : Caroleen Feeney

Gender : Female

Character Name : Congressman

Original Name : Paul Bartel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cloaked Figure

Original Name : Shelly Desai

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mescalito (uncredited)

Original Name : Julien Cesario

Gender : Male

Character Name : President

Original Name : Cliff Robertson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gang Member (uncredited)

Original Name : Thomas Rosales Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hershe Gang Member (uncredited)

Original Name : John Koyama

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hershe Gang Member (uncredited)

Original Name : Leo Lee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hershe Gang Member (uncredited)

Original Name : Stuart Quan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Orphan Boy (uncredited)

Original Name : Wyatt Russell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Female Narrator (uncredited)

Original Name : Jamie Lee Curtis

Gender : Female

Reviews

JPV852

@JPV852

2021-06-23

90s cheese not quite as good as 80s cheese, but still an entertaining enough action-thriller, though some moments were laughable and not in a good way (Snake riding surfing a wave isn't all that bad ass), plus the effects work was rather poor. I don't have a great fondness for Escape from New York, however it was far superior. **3.0/5**

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-06

So Los Angeles has become a glorified open-air prison (who'd have thought?) and "Snake" (Kurt Russell) is invited to do his "Mad Max" thing and go in, at considerable peril to himself, and fetch a gadget that could enable the US President (Cliff Robertson) - or anyone else with the codes, for that matter - to use a satellite in the best traditions of "Diamonds are Forever" (1971) and destroy parts or all of the world. The twist, well it turns out that it's "Utopia" (A.J. Langer), who just happens to be the president's disgruntled daughter, who is the one who took the device into the lawless wasteland in the first place and enforcer "Malloy" (Stacey Keach) is determined to get it back, regardless of whether or not she comes back with it. It's a derivative mess, this film. It's rooted in so many other stories that are much better executed; there is simply no menace or jeopardy at all, and John Carpenter seems unsure whether he wants an all-out action film or a semi-comedy. Russell is always at his more entertaining with the latter, here he just comes across as a man with a mission who is no more interested in the plot than I was. Steve Buscemi doesn't really add much either as the duplicitous "Eddie" and I am sure I spotted Peter Fonda in here too - a payday for a few actors who ought to have known better. The effects and pyrotechnics are adequate but the nadir in a basketball court surrounded by gun-toting assassins who could't hit a cow on the tit with a tin cup just put the icing on this really undercooked muffin.