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Post by ScreenHead One on Nov 12, 2022 15:23:51 GMT -6
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Post by ScreenHead One on Nov 12, 2022 15:28:58 GMT -6
*Escape From New York (1981)
7.10 Rating 99 min
The year is 1997. New York City has been turned into a maximum security prison colony, when the American crime rates grows high. New York City is surrounded by a wall and the bridges and waterways are mined making sure no convict escapes from Manhattan. Snake Plissken, a one-eyed former soldier turned bank robber arrives at New York after being sentenced to life imprisonment in New York City. Bob Hauk, police commissioner who runs the New York penal colony gives Snake a job for his freedom. Snake is sent into Manhattan to find and rescue the President of the United States who is trapped there, when a terrorist hijacked Air Force One and crashed it in the city.
Not only Snake must rescue the President, he must also retrieve a cassette containing vital information in the President's possession.
Hauk has Snake implanted with a bomb which is programmed to detonate in 22 hours, which will kill Snake if he fails the mission and Hauk
will have the bomb disarmed if Snake succeeds.
Entering New York and 22 hours before the bomb kills him, Snake sets out to rescue the President who is being held hostage by a ruthless warlord known as The Duke of New York.
Can Snake rescue the President and retrieve the cassette before the 22 hours are up? and will Snake Escape from New York?
Country: United States
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Release: 1981
Director: John Carpenter
Production: Goldcrest Films International, AVCO Embassy Pictures, International Film Investors
Cast: Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef, Michael Taylor, Clay Wright, John Strobel, Harry Dean Stanton,
Al Cerullo, John Diehl, Borah Silver, Donald Pleasence, Richard Cosentino, David R. Patrick
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Post by ScreenHead One on Nov 12, 2022 15:34:46 GMT -6
*Escape From L.A. (1996)
5.70 Rating 101 min
The year is 2013. Like New York, Los Angeles has been turned into a prison island for the United State's most undesirable criminals, like New York, Los Angeles is surrounded by a wall so no convict can escape from L.A and once deported to L.A. you can never return to the American mainland which has become a moral society. 16-years after he escaped from New York, One-Eyed former soldier Snake Plissken now the United State's most wanted outlaw is once again given another job for his freedom by the new President and L.A's security commander Malloy. Snake is sent into L.A. to recover a doomsday device that shuts all power sources on Earth from brutal terrorist Curevo Jones and the President's runaway daughter Utopia who has been brainwashed by Curveo into stealing the doomsday device, and the President personally wants Snake to eliminate Utopia for betraying her country. Like New York, Snake is injected with a engineered virus which will kill him in 9 hours if Snake fails the mission, if Snake succeeds in completing the mission, he will be given the antidote. Entering L.A, now inhabited by criminals, runaway teenagers, prostitutes and brutal gangs. Snake sets out to recover the doomsday device and kill Utopia, as Curevo and his army of terrorists prepares to invade the United States and can Snake escape from L.A. before the virus kills him in 9 hours?
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Release: 1996
Director: John Carpenter
Production: Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment
Cast: Kurt Russell, Bruce Campbell, Pam Grier, Steve Buscemi, Cliff Robertson, Stacy Keach, Valeria Golino, Peter Fonda,
Peter Jason, Georges Corraface, Michelle Forbes, AJ Langer, Jordan Baker, Ina Romeo, Caroleen Feeney
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