In 1997, Manhattan has been transformed in the New York Maximum Security Penitentiary, where criminals are sent in life sentence. When the Air Force One crashes in Manhattan with the president of the USA that is traveling to a summit with other leaders, the prison dean Hauk proposes a deal to the convicted one-eyed bank robber Snake Plissken. If he rescues the president and his tape in less than 23 hours, he would be granted pardon. In order to guarantee full commitment of Snake Plissken, Hauk lures him and injects a lethal capsule in his blood that will dissolve in the scheduled time. Snake Plissken uses a small plane to land one the roof of the World Trade Center. Soon he finds that the tracking device was removed from the president. When he meets the taxi driver Cabbie, he learns that the warlord The Duke has captured the president. Now Snake Plissken has to team-up with his former partner Brain, who has double-crossed him in the past, and his squeeze Maggie to rescue the president and save his own life.
The year is 1998. Due to huge crime rates, the United States turns its once great city of New York into a maximum security Manhattan prison where hardcore criminals are put for life. All the bridges leading in and out of the city are mined, a large wall is built along the shoreline and a large police force army is based there to stop or kill any attempted escapees. In route to a conference Summit meeting between China and Soviet Union, the President on board Air Force One is forced to eject in a escape pod when a female terrorist takes over the controls and crashes the plane into a building inside the city. A new prisoner, ex-soldier Snake Plissken is offered his freedom if he goes in, frees the President and finds a tape with important information for the conference. Snake agrees but to ensure his co-operation, he is injected with a small but powerful explosive micro capsules that will only be destroyed if his mission is successful. Snake must set out into the decaying city, filled with immoral criminals, and he must succeed - for his own life.
One of the Director&#39;s better Movies. It is a completely Cynical and Dark atmosphere that relays its intent on the Audience with an effectiveness that only a talented B-Movie Director could concoct. The ability to take Comic-Book Stories and Characters, dress them up, and announce the whole thing as gritty, sleazy Fun. Style personified.<br/><br/>The Film is oozing with Style. From the Haunting, but typical, thumping of the Synthesizer, not one scene in the Daylight (Dawn at best), Thrift Store Chic Costumes, a Larger than Life Anti-Hero, and assorted Street Dregs, mixed with the Classical Chestnut &quot;do this thing and you are Pardoned&quot;, it all comes together with simplistic, but Colorful Sets and Graphics and bit of the ol&#39; Ultraviolence.<br/><br/>It is Sci-Punk Noir and the Talented Creators both in front of and behind the Camera make for an Amalgamated Apocalyptic Fan Favorite Film.
John Carpenter could once be counted among the most exciting, invigorating names in Hollywood. Every film he made was a classic of its genre. Whether it be action, science-fiction or horror. His career has slowed down considerably in recent years, but back in the late 70s and early 80s, there was no stopping him. Escape From New York was a huge success, and is one of John Carpenter&#39;s best films. It was one of the first to attempt to meld the whole action genre onto a SF backdrop. And its something that John Carpenter achieves with considerable finesse.<br/><br/>Carpenter has always seemed like a man who refuses to play by the rules. Which is why the heroes of his films are often wild-cards trusted by neither side of the wars they wind up flung into. So it makes sense that Carpenter would draw upon the rules of the Ancient West when creating Escape From New York, because its the perfect aesthetic for this conceit.<br/><br/>The idea behind the film is a great one. In 1997, Manhattan Island has been converted into a maximum security prison. Prisoners from all across the Western Seaboard are put here with no chance of a reprieve. All bridges and waterways off the Island are mined. There are no guards. No wardens. And no escape. Until Air Force One is hijacked while flying over Manhattan, and The President is taken prisoner. So the Prison Commissioner sends in Snake Plissken, a former war hero and current convicted criminal, on a mission to find the President and bring him back alive. If he doesn&#39;t, he&#39;ll die in 24 hours thanks to a bomb implanted in his head.<br/><br/>Escape From New York is one of my favourite films of John Carpenter&#39;s. The Thing takes the No 1 spot, but Escape From New York is a close runner-up. It has so many fine things about it. Carpenter&#39;s direction is smooth, and polished. It has probably the best score he&#39;s ever composed for his own films. And it has a terrific cast. Maybe the best you&#39;re ever likely to find in a John Carpenter film.<br/><br/>The first half is particularly impressive. The way Carpenter&#39;s direction allows the film to glide from one stylish set-piece to the next. The President&#39;s capture. Meeting Snake. Heading into New York. Exploring the dark, eerie streets of Manhattan. All helped along by Carpenter&#39;s music that throbs and ebbs away in the background. The first 40 minutes feel more like 10.<br/><br/>Escape From New York was made on a 7 million dollar budget, but it has the look and feel of a much more expensive film. 7 million is not a lot of money to work with, especially when making an action film, but John Carpenter has always had a knack for crafting superb films from shoestring budgets. This is no exception. The dark photography helps to make the Island of Manhattan a much more ominous place, and the sinister urgency of the music helps as well. There are also some excellent special effects work from none other than James Cameron, three years before he hit big with The Terminator. Snake&#39;s glider flight over Manhattan is quite a sight. Its spectacular without ever drawing attention to itself as a special effect.<br/><br/>In the role of Snake Plissken, John Carpenter defied the wishes of the studio by casting Kurt Russell. You can understand their scepticism. Russell was only known for teen comedies with Disney, so the idea of making him the star of an action vehicle sounds a recipe for disaster. But he&#39;s a perfect Snake. A black eye-patch, khaki pants and assault rifle make him an intimidating sight. Snake often seems like the new sheriff in town, ready to clean up Manhattan. Russell must have had Clint Eastwood in mind when playing Snake, what with his sneering eye and quiet rasp of a voice. Kurt Russell always reserves his best performances for John Carpenter, and this is by far the best.<br/><br/>Russell has plenty of excellent backup too. The Clint Eastwood analogy seems even more apt when we have Spaghetti Western veteran Lee Van Cleef in the film too. His beady-eyed Prison Commissioner is an amusing contrast to Snake&#39;s sneery-eyed defiance. The film really lights up whenever they&#39;re paired together. Donald Pleasance is an amusingly squeamish President. Its especially funny to see him when he&#39;s back in his comfort zone. His cowardice replaced by self-importance. He&#39;s a true politician. Harry Dean Stanton and especially Adrienne Barbeau offer up welcome support, even if they&#39;re not particularly well developed by Carpenter. And Ernest Borgnine brings a bit of warmth as Cabbie. His death is quite affecting at the end.<br/><br/>Some of the action scenes are held back by the film&#39;s low budget. Some are a little too low-key, and I&#39;m not sure the film needed the wrestling match. It seems a bit out of step with the rest of it. But Carpenter&#39;s direction is so slick that you may not even notice these flaws. Escape From New York is still one of the best of its kind.
The movie is never less than entertaining, but it fails to satisfy—it gives us too little of too much. Oddly, much of its pleasure is in the acting, which up to this point hadn't been Carpenter's strong suit: Donald Pleasence, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton offer excellent turns.
The most logical reason is that he did it in retaliation. He felt cheated by Hauk because he was not told about the explosive charges in his neck until AFTER he agreed to take on the mission and the injection, and thereby endangering his life. This is the same as his motive for doing a similar thing in <a href="/title/tt0116225/">Escape from L.A. (1996)</a> when he shuts down the Earth. In the sequel Snake tells the President, &quot;You better hope I don&#39;t make it back.&quot; Another reason could be that Snake broke the tape out of respect for those who helped him escape and who died: Cabbie, Maggie, and Brain. Keep in mind, the President (Donald Pleasance) wasn&#39;t too appreciative of the others (saying only that they did a &quot;service to their country&quot;), and was more worried about how he was going to look on TV to address the summit leaders. And of course, it could be that being the cynical anti-hero that Snake is, he really doesn&#39;t give a f*. The contents of the tape are never explicitly revealed in the movie, but we can make certain assumptions.<br/><br/>Hauk states that the United States is at war, and that the President was on his way to a summit called the Hartford Summit. China and the Soviet Union are waiting at the summit, so the implication is that (in the movie&#39;s alternate future) the U.S. is at war with them. Hauk says that the President&#39;s arrival is &quot;critical to the fate of the human race,&quot; so the summit is most likely a last-ditch effort to put an end to World War III, an all-out nuclear war. Without the President and the tape, Hauk says, the representatives of China and the Soviet Union will go back to their countries, presumably to continue fighting the war.<br/><br/>One possibility is that the tape contains the speech that the President was going to deliver at the Summit. That seems unlikely, since there&#39;s no reason the President couldn&#39;t have improvised a new speech containing the basic theme of the old one. Besides, the President could have written the speech down instead of recording it on a tape, and his staff would have had a copy of the speech.<br/><br/>When Snake asks what is on the tape, Hauk replies by asking Snake what he knows about cold fusion. Cold fusion was, at the time of the movie&#39;s production, a theoretical process to create unlimited energy. At one point in the cab, a brief portion of the tape is played. The voice on the tape describes radioactive elements before it&#39;s shut off. So we know the contents of the tape are related to nuclear technology.<br/><br/>This leaves two possibilities. One is that the tape&#39;s recording contains a description of some revolutionary form of nuclear power which the President is sharing with the Communist nations. Giving the technology to the enemy might be a goodwill gesture or revealing the technology might have been a condition of Russia and China&#39;s appearance at the summit. Another possibility might be that the tape describes all of the nuclear secrets of the United States. Revealing these secrets might be (again) a goodwill gesture to the enemy or part of the terms of the summit. Either way, the President failing to deliver the technology ends all hope of the summits success.<br/><br/>But the boring answer is that it really doesn&#39;t matter what was on the tape in the briefcase, as the tape and the briefcase is a &#39;MacGuffin&#39;, a plot device to get the story going. There is a fan-made one called <a href="/title/tt1753790/">Escape from New Jersey (2010)</a>. Set Straight after Escape From New York, we find Snake Plissken stuck in New Jersey with his new found freedom on the line when his path crosses that of Armando Barone, the crime kingpin of the Garden State. With his Presidential pardon in Barone&#39;s grasp, Snake is once again forced to re-steal the money that got him sent to New York Prison in the first place. Can Snake pull off the job? Will he ever truly be free? But more importantly, can he escape New Jersey? This one is directed by a fan of the original two movies <a href="/name/nm2031205/">Chris R. Notarile</a> and stars <a href="/name/nm4142591/">Hector De La Rosa</a> as Snake.
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