Escape from New York
Escape from New York
Director:
John CarpenterCámara:
Dean CundeyReparto:
Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Tom Atkins, Charles Cyphers, Harry Dean Stanton (más)Sinopsis(1)
Nueva York es ahora una prisión de alta seguridad donde va a parar toda la escoria de la humanidad. El problema viene cuando el avión del presidente de los Estados Unidos se estrella en la ciudad, llevando un maletín bastante importante. El único hombre que puede entrar en la ciudad y salir vivo con el presidente es "el Serpiente" (Kurt Russel) , quien además deberá afrontar la cuenta atrás de un veneno mortal, cuya cura solo le espera si completa la misión. (Filmayer S.A.)
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Gran ambientación del Manhattan postapocalíptico, gran conjunto de actores de los dorados ochenta. Kurt Russell en la cima de sus fuerzas. Una hora y media muy agradable incluso hoy, más de veinte años después.
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Typical John Carpenter’s madness set in an insanely looking New York as big prison, with tasteless and uninspiring action scenes, and characters that look like they've just had a stroke. The whole thing looks like one big fetish flick. We have a boxing ring, pseudo-futuristic machines, the World Trade Center, where a glider can land, all of that crowned by a tough and taciturn hero played by Kurt Russell, whom everyone knows and nobody calls anything other than Snake. It's crazy nonsense, but entertaining at times. The script is practically nonexistent and the plot is also nothing special. The only thing that stands out is precisely the cheapness and wackiness of the whole project, which is basically Carpenter's main weapon to impress the audience.
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Carpenter’s precise B-movie hit demands that you not think about the wider context of the story and instead adapt to the requirements of low-brow entertainment, but the director will pay you back with interest. Kurt Russell is great and is accompanied by a host of top-acting talent and, despite the occasional silliness, this is pure filmmaking that, even within its premise, can be taken pretty seriously. The uncontrolled “trash” fun will come with the sequel. 75%
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A typical, distinctive Carpenter film, as only he can do it. The low budget and the associated minimalism are enough to play a solid B-movie etude about one tough guy who stood up to everyone and fucked them all up... Kurt Russell is a man par excellence, who needs little to satisfy similarly-minded fans - the pissed-off face, synth music, and an hour and a half-long sequence of tense scenes that can be described in several pages of genre textbooks today. 4 ½.
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Carpenter’s famous cult movie didn’t work on me. The atmosphere is fine, Russell is tough as nails, but the very premise of Manhattan as a prison (that was set up god knows why) is very silly. I know looking for logic in films of this kind is nonsense, but in Escape from New York all those inconsistencies were way too evident.
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