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movie review - Escape from L.A.

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1997.05.30

Supremely bad to a cartoonish level. This is a B sci-fi/action movie along the lines of Escape from N.Y., but without the assumption that it's a B movie. It also seems to have cost a lot more. Outrageously bad science, very low-res SFX, and a cast of actors who you suspect were Kurt Russel's friends. Stacey Keach? Steve Buscemi?

Not recommended.

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