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| ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) | |
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In a dark future where violence and crime is staggering, the government has shut down Manhattan and made it into a high security prison where prisoners have been put for life to govern themselves. There are no ways out, since the government has mined all the bridges to and from the island and a wall has been erected on the shores around the island where guards are equipped with heavy firearms. When cynical Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is sent to the prison to serve his life sentence he is offered amnesty, if he can recover the President of the United States who has crashed into Manhattan. In addition, he is forced to follow a certain time line and if he does not follow the time line a bomb will explode within his arteries. Escape from New York is an action packed science fiction film that keeps the audience interested in the plot, however, the story suffers from incoherent characters and the technology that the can be seen in the film inhibits the audience from getting a good feeling for the story. |
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