Escape from New York 1981 Watch Free in HD

The island of New York City has been transformed into a gigantic prison state. When Air Force One crashes on the island, mercenary Snake Plissken is sent on a mission to rescue the President from the island's ruling felons, or die trying.

Genre:

Action, Sci-Fi

Actors:

Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Charles Cyphers, Joe Unger, ...»

Director:

John Carpenter

Country:

United States

Release:

1981

IMDb:

7.1

Quality:

Duration:

99 min

Variety

A solidly satisfying actioner.

June 05, 2007

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Cinema Crazed

A one of a kind apocalyptic epic that has yet to be rivaled in action and storytelling quality.

June 17, 2015

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Stream on Demand

Maybe it's not John Carpenter's best film, but it's one of his most fun and the premise is irresistible: in the future, Manhattan has been turned into a high security island prison and Liberty Island is the guard station.

April 21, 2017

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Chicago Reader

It's a rare film that has so many ideas and yet fails so consistently to make use of them.

June 05, 2007

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The pic functions well as both a prison escape drama and as an escapist film. It's far from a great film, but is entertaining and pleasantly cynical despite being so bleak.

October 07, 2015

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ReelViews

When the final credits roll, you can be forgiven a vague sense of dissatisfaction, because the creativity that went into formulating the premise was never extended to the script writing stage.

January 01, 2000

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Antagony & Ecstasy

A marriage of character, actor, and writer/director of the first order.

January 02, 2016

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Time Out

The plot gradually winds down into predictable though highly enoyable histrionics.

January 26, 2006

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New York Times

It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season.

August 30, 2004

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Snake is Carpenter's fantasy alter ego, a man of uncompromised anti-authoritarianism. 'I don't give a f--- about your war, or your President,' Snake tells the police commissioner, voicing a sentiment that was hardly unusual during Carpenter's USC days.

May 15, 2015

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Cinema-stache

Power corrupts. Truth is the antidote. And if the masters of the universe don't like that, it only takes one nasty bastard in the right place at the right time to correct them. The eyepatch is optional.

January 25, 2017

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Time Out

The movie proudly wears its affection for crusty Sergio Leone archetypes and countdown-clock suspense sequences; Carpenter was Tarantino long before Tarantino was.

July 23, 2013

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