This limits the details and texture, as well as the depth. There's a great deal of softness throughout, as if the lenses could only handle small areas to show clearly within the frame. There are times during effects shots though when blacks skew closer to blue, such as all the scenes involving Air Force One. The transfer does well delivering shadow delineation and avoids black crush to which it so easily could have fallen victim. Blacks and darkness have a strong, consistent presence throughout the movie. The majority of the scenes are nighttime exteriors and a good portion of the interiors are not brightly lit. There is slight grain intact, and in keeping with the studio's hand-off approach, no digital tinkering appears to have been done. The source material does have its limits, so those have been taken into consideration here. The video is presented with a 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 encoded transfer at an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The disc begins with an advertisement promoting Digital Copy, although there isn't one for this movie, and then goes to the menu screen.
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MGM by way of 20th Century Fox brings 'Escape From New York' to high-definition on a BD-50 Blu-ray disc housed inside a standard blue keepcase along with a DVD flipper of the movie in both Widescreen and Standard. Russell borrows too much from Clint Eastwood in creating Plissken and there's not enough to make the character more than a generic figure. The pacing is a little slow when Snake first gets inside the prison.
The story could use a little more fleshing out, and while there are some good twists in the plot, the results are rather predictable. The movie does suffer slightly though in a few areas. Some of the special effects are also pretty impressive for the time. Carpenter delivers a good amount of action with plenty of fights, guns, and explosions to entertain viewers. 'Escape From New York' is a fun B-movie that does well on its limited budget of about $6-$7 million. But he doesn't have to go it alone, as he receives help along the way from Cabbie (Ernest Borgnine) the Brain (Henry Dean Stanton) (though why he earned the nickname is not always clear), and Brain's girlfriend, the cleavage-revealing Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau, who was Carpenter's wife at the time). Snake's task is made even more difficult because the Duke of New York (Isaac Hayes) has taken the President hostage to secure his freedom and those of his followers. Since he's going into the prison anyway, he takes the deal however, to ensure Plissken doesn't run off, and to help motivate him, Hauk has explosives injected into his body that will kill Snake if the deadline is missed. Plissken had been a special-forces soldier, but for reasons not made clear, he attempted to rob the Federal Reserve Depository. Rather than send in any of his own men, Hauk makes a deal with newly arrived inmate "Snake" Plissken (Kurt Russell) and offers him a pardon him if he can get the President out in 24 hours to make the summit. The man in charge of getting him out is United States Police Force Commissioner Bob Hauk (Lee Van Cleef).
He, of course, lands within the prison walls.
A terrorist, or revolutionary depending on your perspective, downs Air Force One, but the President survives by taking the plane's escape pod. (Donald Pleasence) is heading to a summit with leaders of Russia and China. Jumping ahead to 1997, the President of the U.S. Setting up the stakes, the voice states the prison's simple rule: "Once you go in, you don't come out." There are no guards and the bridges are mined. 'Escape From New York' opens with Carpenter's synthesizer-led score, and immediately the decade of its release is apparent, transporting the viewer back without the aid of a ' Hot Tub Time Machine.' Credits and a female computer voice reveal that in "1988 The Crime Rate in the United States Four Hundred Percent." That event led to New York's Manhattan Island being walled off and turned into a maximum-security prison. The first was 'Escape From New York,' which has just been released on Blu-ray, although the resulting product surely must have been the decision of the bean counters dealing with the looming MGM bankruptcy, rather than any creative people wanting to celebrate the nearly 30-year-old movie, because what they've presented is rather unsatisfying.
After working together on the television movie 'Elvis,' director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell had a great run through the '80s creating a trio of sci-fi cult classics.
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