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One of John Carpenter's best on a great 2-Disc set!
In the future, Manhattan Island has become a large prison island unlike alcatraz where criminals rules and there are no guards for the crooks run free on the island doing whatever they want. The President (Donald Pleasance) has crashed landed by accident and is kidnapped by ruthless thugs led by the Duke (Issac Hayes), the military sends out a lone former solider and criminal named Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russell) to find the president, he's been implanted with an explosive device inside him and will explode within 24 hours if he fails but if he succeeds then it will be removed. <
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>A unique and original Sci-fi action thriller from the maker of "Halloween" and "The Thing" John Carpenter and is one of the true sci-fi classics of all time. Kurt Russell is perfection playing the memorable cult anti-hero Snake Plisskin much like Carpenter's other Kurt Russell hero creation Jack Burton from "Big Trouble in Little China". The film co-stars Andrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef, and Tom Atkins with an uncredited voice over by Jamie Lee Curtis and has good acting, good special effects for it's time, an original storyline and the qualty of the film makes the New York in this movie look like a realistic post-apocalyptic New York, the music score by John Carpenter is very haunting as well. <
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>This awesome 2-Disc special edition has excellent picture and sound quality with two audio commentaries, a comic book inside the case, Still gallery, Trailers especially to a few other MGM releases, deleted scene, and three featurettes especially on the making of the Snake Plisskin comic. Own this must have movie and DVD for your Sci-fi and action collection today! <
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>Also recommended: "Battle Royale", "The Running Man", "Total Recall", "Robocop", "Escape from L.A.", "Blade Runner", "Akira", "Mad Max", "The Island (2005)", "The Road Warrior", "Transformers (2007)", "Rats: A Night of Terror", "Die Hard", "The Rock", "Max Max Beyond Thunderdome", "Fist of the North Star (1986 anime version)", "Death Race 2000", "The Fifth Element", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Aliens".

Call me Snake!!..............
This film is another cult classic from John Carpenter, the first one was Assault on precinct 13 and then Halloween ect. it was made in 1981 and starred Kurt Russel in his first lead role, this dvd was excellent and has a ton of special features in it including the infamous bank robbery scene that was deleted for some reason even though it was brilliant and should have been kept in the film. In 1997 the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's largest maximum security prison , a place where some of the most dangerous and worst criminals are being held and land minds have bent set up around the place along with some guards securing the area from huge walls so no one can escape. The U.S. government finds itself in a major crisis when the president's plane crash lands somewhere in New York only days before a peace conference between other nations, he has been taken hostage and held for ransom so its up to a convict and anti-hero Snake Plissken (played by Kurt Russel in his best role ever) to save the president (Donald Pleasence) and he needs to do this before he gets infected by a virus and killed it was injected in him by force so he has no choice. Kurt Russel has created a very memorable and over the top character thats alot of fun to watch and he does almost seem like Clint Eastwood with the way he talks hes like the ultimate tough guy and check out that big gun I thought it was very cool. Anyway this film is highly amusing in some places and is definitely one of the greatest b-movies of all time even though its very cheesy and a bit outdated especially when Snake has to retrieve some top secret information on a cassette tape, nowadays it would have been a cd and people would have cell phones instead of huge walkie talkies or whatever there called lol. The other actors were also great like Isac Hayes as the bad guy and Lee Van Cleef from The good, the bad and the ugly as well as Adrienne Barbeau as Maggie in a hilarious outfit who helps out when Snake was in trouble in a memorable scene. Escape form New York is a great action/sci fi film that is guaranteed to not disappoint because it is a fun film that has alot of wit and energy that marks a John Carpenter picture, the sequel was not as good but was still enjoyable enough to watch. This film was way better than wasting my time on a dumb big budget Hollywood blockbuster film those usually end up being so retarded, I highly recommend this exciting film and two thumbs up.