John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. is a go-for-broke action extravaganza that satirizes the genre at the same time it's exploiting it.
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This review of Escape from L.A. (1996) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 15 Dec 2009.
Escape from L.A. has generally received mixed reviews.
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