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Escape from New York without Snake Plissken
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 09/09/2017
"I mean it's more tactical. This isn't an attack. This is an invasion."
There's one thing this film surprised me with. And that's the speed at which the violence begins. One moment Lucy (Brittany Snow) walks with her boyfriend through a subway station. The next moment, he's lying dead next to her and in the background you can hear the sound of automatic guns and screaming people in panic. Turns out a war started in this part of New York. A kind of American Civil War in guerrilla style. The sound effects and the way in which the camera follows fleeing Lucy looks a lot like a third person shooter. Even Lucy's sister Belinda (Angelic Zambrana) thought the neighbors were playing "Call of Duty" all the time.
It's only when Lucy is rescued by Stupe (Dave Bautista), a concierge with a …
