1996 · action · thriller · sci-fi
Escape from L.A.
Directed by John Carpenter1h 41m1996
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.
Our read: Escape from L.A. (1996) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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