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Review of by Eldin B — 18 Apr 2014

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"In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline.

It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made.

The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.".

This review of Escape from New York (1981) was written by on 18 Apr 2014.

Escape from New York has generally received positive reviews.

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