is Snake redux, and what more do you need, really?" Nigel Floyd of Time Out London wrote, "After 15 years of computer-generated effects, apocalyptic sci-fi and Arnie movies with flippant kiss-off lines, the sequel feels hackneyed and pointless." Kim Newman of Empire rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, "Apart from a few good characters, this is really not up to scratch in most departments especially the ludicrous plot." Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle rated it 3/5 stars and wrote, "Loud, rollicking, alternately ultraviolent and hilarious, Escape from L.A. Peter Stack of The San Francisco Chronicle rated it 3/4 stars and called it "dark, percussive and perversely fun." Esther Iverem of The Washington Post wrote that the film "tries but fails to be an action-hero flick or even a parody of one." brilliantly imagines a Dante-esque vision of the City of Angels." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "With much humor and high adventure, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film's in-jokes "go a long way toward keeping afloat a hopelessly choppy adventure spoof that doesn't even to try to match the ghoulish surrealism of its forerunner." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it C+ and wrote, "Carpenter never was the filmmaker his cult claimed him to be, but in Escape From L.A., he at least has the instinct to keep his hero moving, like some leather-biker Candide." is spiked with a number of funny and anarchic ideas, but doesn't begin to pull them together into a coherent whole." Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "A cartoonish, cheesy, and surprisingly campy apocalyptic actioner, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of a possible four and wrote that the movie felt it was an attempt to satirize the genre while exploiting it: " has such manic energy, such a weird, cockeyed vision, that it may work on some moviegoers as satire and on others as the real thing." has its moments, although it certainly suffers in comparison to the cult classic that preceded it". The site's consensus reads: "Escape from L.A. Kurt Russell, A.J.The film received mixed reviews and has a 52% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 56 reviews, with an average score of 5.6/10. Infected by a fatal virus, his clock is ticking as enemy forces threaten America's borders. Once again, Snake is recruited by the President's men to complete an impossible task: penetrate the Sodom that is L.A., retrieve the device, and eliminate Utopia. However, his own daughter Utopia joins forces with Cuervo, taking with her the key to a doomsday device that could send mankind back to the dark ages. The President deports all immoral (and therefore criminal) citizens of the U.S to the City of Angels. From this new island hell rises an army of discontent, led by brutal South American revolutionary Cuervo Jones. A massive earthquake has hit Los Angeles, leaving it in ruins and completely surrounded by water. Now, a different President is in power and declares the United States to be a land of moral superiority: no smoking, no red meat, no freedom of religion and no unapproved marriages. It's 16 years after Snake Plissken's rescue of the President in New York.
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