Escape from New York
ActionThrillerScience Fiction
7.047/10
|US
|en
|99 min
Release Date: 1981-05-23
Overview - In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Production Companies
AVCO Embassy PicturesGoldcrestInternational Film InvestorsCity FilmsTaurus Film
User Reviews
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Graviteer
"Too little of too much" would describe this movie well, which presented us a dystopian New York with development potential and characters whose background is shared, exposed with brief moments of characterization that made me feel like I was missing this movie's predecessor. It didn't exist, and so the end result was of an expanded universe of unknown circumstances - except for the brief introduc...
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John Chard
9/10
A Snake, a Brain, a Cabbie, a Duke and the President Of The USA. It's 1997 and Manhattan Island is a walled off prison, during the flight of Air Force One the president's plane is taken over by a terrorist and the president ejects out in the safety pod. Sadly for him he lands right in the middle of Manhattan Island. When an armed unit lands inside the walls they are told that the president has ...
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Gimly
8/10
