Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, one eyed loner criminal, former US Soldier looking out for only one guy - himself. He gets arrested and is on his way to a life long sentence in New York of an alternate 1997 for various crimianl acts, but on the eve of his imprisonment Air Force One is taken down by an obnoxious bitch rebel and crashes in the New York island prison. Snake is then recruited by cop Lee Van Cleef to rescue the president (Donald Pleasance!) and retrieve a tape that has the future of humanity on it - or suffer the consequences. En route to rescuing the president, Snake faces off with the Duke of New York (Isaac Hayes), Brain (Harry Dean Stanton), Brain's girl Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau), various thugs and meets Cabbie (Ernest Borgnine). Will Snake survive? You'll have to watch and find out.
Very entertaining B-movie with sturdy performance from Russell, great atmosphere by director John Carpenter and great matte photography by pre-Terminator director James Cameron. Season Hubley, Kurt Russell's then wife, appears as the blond girl in the Chock Full O'Nuts store and former Jason actor Ted White appears somewhere in the film performing dangerous stunts.
Very entertaining B-movie with sturdy performance from Russell, great atmosphere by director John Carpenter and great matte photography by pre-Terminator director James Cameron. Season Hubley, Kurt Russell's then wife, appears as the blond girl in the Chock Full O'Nuts store and former Jason actor Ted White appears somewhere in the film performing dangerous stunts.