
Slant Magazine
The sound mix, until the finale, is rarely louder than Snake's elbow busting out an old windowpane.
Full reviewKurt Russell is Snake Plissken, the eye-patched badass and ex-con forced to rescue the president from the maximum security prison known as Manhattan Island, in John Carpenter's action sci-fi classic set in the apocalyptic future of 1997.
The sound mix, until the finale, is rarely louder than Snake's elbow busting out an old windowpane.
Full reviewIt has got an intriguing premise, an effective cast, and it has been expertly mounted.
Full reviewAlthough execution doesn't quite live up to the fabulous premise, Escape from New York is a solidly satisfying actioner.
Full reviewThe film plays its social satire broad but strings it along a rail of self-awareness.
Full review1997 is the year in which the film's events are set, but far from being a bright, progressive future, it is a hyperbolic deterioration of 1981's here and now.
Full reviewEscape from New York is available to stream in New Zealand now on Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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