![]() ![]() Along the way, he passes just above various familiar, but submerged, freeways and city landmarks, most notably Universal Studios, but the geography underwater makes no more sense than it eventually does above ground. Pic’s first sort-of-groovy sequence has Snake being spirited in a mini-submarine from prison to the island. Former war hero and full-time bad boy Snake Plissken is pulled out of mothballs to retrieve the black box and, while he’s at it, eliminate the president’s turncoat sprig. Police Force and ruled by right-wing religious hypocrite Cliff Robertson, who has declared himself President for Life.īut the prexy’s goody-goody daughter has suddenly seen through her old man, absconded with his top-secret “black box” and joined forces with gangster revolutionary Cuervo Jones (George Corraface), who is about to lead a massive uprising of the dispossessed and the merely unwashed against the fascistic Establishment. Island as a means of purifying the new “moral” United States, which is lorded over by a Gestapo-like U.S. In somewhat facetious fashion, the audience is informed that, in the wake of the quake, the nation’s undesirables have all been sequestered on L.A. In fact, five-minute expositional prologue is packed with enough juicy info and described incident that one wishes Carpenter had shot that and dispensed with the aftermath. Westward migration being what it is, by 2013 all the degenerates are in L.A., part of which has broken off from the mainland courtesy of a 9.8 earthquake in the year 2000. prez out of a New York City that was an armed fortress controlled by convicts and loonies, circa 1998. When last seen, Snake was spiriting the U.S. ![]()
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