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The Dominator Reviews Escape from L.A DVDfever.co.uk - Charts, News and Reviews of Blu-rays, DVDs, Game... http://www.dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/escapela.shtml This Week's Highlights Sega Dreamcast The Man Who Kinect Music chart New Blu-ray Homes Under Collection Fell To Earth Adventures analysis w/e & DVD The Hammer 9.4.11 highlights @ DVDfever Youtube Last updated Apr 05 2011 Latest News ...... DVD Reviews ...... Blu-ray Reviews ...... Xbox 360 Reviews ...... PSP Reviews ...... CD Reviews Xbox Gamertag: The Dominator reviews DVDfever co uk Escape From L.A. Distributed by Pioneer LDCE Why films on TV Cat.no: PLFEB 36121 in their original Cert: 15 widescreen ratio Running time: 97 minutes is good for you Sides: 2 (CLV) Year: 1996 Pressing: UK, 1997 Chapters: 28 (15/12+1) Sound: Dolby Surround Widescreen: 2.35:1 (Panavision) Price: £24.99 Extras : Theatrical trailers : War of the Worlds, The Phantom, Virtuosity, Star Trek: First Contact. Director: John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape From New York, Dark Star) News & Views Producer: News Archive Announcements Debra Hill and Kurt Russell All About Us Screenplay: Email Dom Write 4 DVDfever John Carpenter, Debra Hill and Kurt Russell Competitions Music Charts Music: 'Music Chart Shirley Walker and John Carpenter Archive Games Chart Cast: Archive Cinema Chart Snake Plissken: Kurt Russell (Escape From New York, Executive Decision) Archive Utopia: A.J. Langer (Arcade, Wes Craven's People Under The Stairs, My So-Called Life (TV)) Cinema Releases Map to the Stars Eddie: Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fargo) Cinema Reviews Cuervo Jones: George Corraface (Christopher Columbus: The Discovery) Press Releases Malloy: Stacy Keach (Mike Hammer (TV), Jesus of Nazareth (TV)) TV Issues Brazen: Michelle Forbes (Kalifornia, Swimming with Sharks) President: Cliff Robertson (633 Squadron, PT 109, Renaissance Man) Frank Hershe: Pam Grier (Nico - Above The Law, The Big Bird Cage, Roots (TV)) Sidebottom's Taslima: Valeria Golino (Rain Man, Four Rooms, Leaving Las Vegas, Hot Shots!) World Wide Shed Pipeline: Peter Fonda (Easy Rider, Love And A .45) Surgeon General of Beverly Hills: Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead trilogy, Congo, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (TV)) R2 DVD Reviews Skinhead: Robert Carradine (The Long Riders, Revenge of the Nerds I-IV) Blu-ray Reviews HD-DVD Reviews R1 DVD Reviews John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. is the sequel to 1981's Escape From New York, with Kurt Russell reprising the role of Snake Plissken. R3-6 DVD Reviews DVD List The film begins in 1998 where a 9.6 earthquake hits the city of Los Angeles, tearing it to pieces to such an extent that it separates the city from the rest of the USA. Cliff Robertson plays the God-fearing Senator who predicts the quake, and upon it happening is sworn in as President for a Xbox 360 Reviews life-long term in office. After the quake is over, security posts are placed around the coast of the USA close to the separated city which is now the CD Reviews place where all offenders and non-desirables are exiled for a lifetime. Once you're out, there's no way back in. Audiobook Reviews Now it is the year 2013, and the President's daughter, Utopia, played by the babelicious A.J. Langer, has rebelled against her father, stolen a top PS2 Reviews secret prototype unit from the Benford Space Defence Lab during a tour for government officials, then highjacked Air Force Three demanding the PSP Reviews surrender of her corrupt father's presidency, before leaving in the escape pod which was bound for L.A. Xbox Reviews After her sister's suicide, Utopia withdrew from life and spent days at a time in a Virtual Reality simulator, making tapes of her experiences. She Gamecube Revs wiped all of them bar a five-second sequence involving Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian terrorist and member of the Shining Path, who runs the gang to GBA Reviews end all gangs in L.A. Jones convinced Utopia to steal the black box, and it needs to be retrieved considering that the original rescue team sent in PC Reviews all perished, bar one. Hardware Revs Concert Reviews "Hell of a team", muses Snake. 1 av 2 2011-04-06 23:50 DVDfever.co.uk - Charts, News and Reviews of Blu-rays, DVDs, Game... http://www.dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/escapela.shtml Video Reviews Snake has been reluctantly recruited to take on Jones, and retrive the doomsday device and the President's daughter. However, whereas in the Comedy Reviews original he had close to 24 hours to complete his mission before a fatal disease kicked in, this time he has only 10 hours. Failure to comply or Book Reviews complete the mission will result in the Plutoxin Seven Virus being fully absorbed into his bloodstream causing a painful death for Snake. Screenplay Reviews "You better hope I don't make it back", promises Snake to Molloy, Brazen and the President. Movie Downloads Interviews TV Shows Let's get one thing out of the way first, this film came under heavy criticism for being just a re-run of the first film, and in essence it does, with Lee PSX Reviews Van Cleef's original role now taken by Stacy Keach, and Michelle Forbes, who appeared in the David Duchovny/Brad Pitt thriller Kalifornia, as N64 Reviews his sidekick, but each of the new actors in the film have their role to play, however brief, and each make it memorable. Dreamcast Revs Such actors include: Steve Buscemi as "Map To The Stars Eddie", Snake's biggest help in getting through his task; Pam Grier, star of the 70's Laserdisc Revs Blaxploitation films as Hershe; Valeria Golino who takes a trip with Snake to see the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills, possibly the worst plastic Short Stories surgeon in the world, played with menace by an unrecognisable Bruce Campbell. Rounding out the extras is Peter Fonda as Pipeline, the best DVDs In Brief surfer in town who teaches Snake how to surf along Wilshire Boulevard when the tsunami approaches. Right To Reply Why Widescreen? The picture of this release is very good indeed, bringing the crisp layout of John Carpenter's vision to life, much sharper than any video release DVD Links could, although there was a number of "sparklies" on my review copy, on parts of side two including the first couple of scenes, and the final scene Music Links which brought the mark down by one. WS Video List WS PAL LD List The sound quality is fantastic though with directional effects benefitting from the Dolby Surround set-up. If you only have your front speakers built into the television set, you're missing out - it's time to upgrade! Me and my After John Carpenter's first film, Dark Star, shot in Academy 4:3 ratio, every film since has been shot in 2.35:1 Panavision. Carpenter's vision is Aortic Valve! such that nothing other than the original ratio will do. Anything less is not so much a compromise, but an impossibility. Put simply, this and his other films cannot be viewed in anything else than the original widescreen ratio. This film has been released in a widescreen video, but for the best Search DVD in picture clarity, you owe it to yourself to buy this laserdisc. Click on this title for a review of John Carpenter's Halloween and John Carpenter's Escape From From New York on PAL LD, plus John Carpenter's Escape From New York and Dark Star on DVD. The King's… Colin Firth, … Film: 4/5 £12.97 Picture: 4/5 Sound: 5/5 Harry Pot… Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1997. Daniel Rad… £14.99 Check out Pioneer's Web site. [Up to the top of this page] Planet Ea… David Atte… £12.99 Piranha 3… Laura Gord… £7.93 Privacy DVDfever.co.uk - Est. February 25th 2000 As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier. 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