Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, convict of the future assigned to
rescue president Donald Pleasence from the vast prison that Manhattan
has become, in John Carpenter's grungily Orwellian action film. Hits
and misses, both cool and too cool for its own good, with its laid back
storytelling and cast of unattractive weirdos. Russell is a plus
point, in his first big screen collaboration with Carpenter (they made
a biopic of Elvis on TV). His persona (minus eye patch) doesn't change
much in the later movies.
