Unlike the majority of Italian post-apocalypse movies that came out in the early 1980s, "2019: After The Fall Of New York" gets its main inspiration not from the Australian "Mad Max" movies, but from "Escape From New York". Among other things, the protagonists have to infiltrate the cut-off city to rescue someone, one of the protagonists has an eyepatch, and the climatic action sequence plays very similarly.
Watching a movie that rips off another doesn't bother me that much, as long as the rip-off manages to be entertaining. This rip-off managed to pass the time well for me. The production values, though low-budget (few "wide" shots, and obviously filming in slums instead of building sets), are still a step up from other Italian post-apocalypse movies. The movie is somewhat padded (the being captured subplot could easily have been cut out), but it never gets boring. So if you have the hunger for post-apocalypse action, this should satisfy.
Watching a movie that rips off another doesn't bother me that much, as long as the rip-off manages to be entertaining. This rip-off managed to pass the time well for me. The production values, though low-budget (few "wide" shots, and obviously filming in slums instead of building sets), are still a step up from other Italian post-apocalypse movies. The movie is somewhat padded (the being captured subplot could easily have been cut out), but it never gets boring. So if you have the hunger for post-apocalypse action, this should satisfy.