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.
Practical Effects
That practical tsunami wave set piece — absurd, wet, magnificent.
Score
Carpenter's guitar-driven synths slap harder than the plot deserves.
Acting
Kurt Russell's permanent sneer carries this entire ridiculous enterprise.
Director
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell
Snake Plissken
Stacy Keach
Malloy
Steve Buscemi
Eddie
A. J. Langer
Utopia
Bruce Campbell
Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
Pam Grier
Hershe Las Palamas
Peter Fonda
Pipeline
Georges Corraface
Cuervo Jones
Robert Carradine
Skinhead
Michelle Forbes
Brazen
Valeria Golino
Taslima
Leland Orser
Test Tube
Jeff Imada
Saigon Shadow
Al Leong
Hershe Gang Member
James Lew
Hershe Gang Member
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carpenter made this solely to reclaim copyright on Snake Plissken from the first film's producers. Petty king behavior.
The 2013 setting and 'President for Life' satire hits weirdly harder post-2016 than intended — Carpenter's cynical Americana ages brutally well.
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This movie needs a reassessment. Hated in the 90s, yet its trailer is more entertaining than the majority of movies these days.
@delaceylehane7758 11
Carpenter beat Tarantino and Rodriguez to the self-aware grindhouse revival by a good few years. Man with a vision right there.
@teddyharvester 146
can you believe we are living in the escape from la timeline
@152gta 46
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