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Escape from L.A.
1996
· Movie
· 101 min
D
MEANRANK
55/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4738
- IMDb #4971
- Rotten Tomatoes #4164
- Metacritic #3365
- Letterboxd #3976
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4038
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4615
- Metacritic Critics #3045
- Metacritic Audience #3742
- Criticker #2978
- Kinopoisk #4256
- AlloCiné #3570
- Trakt #4372
Every rating
35–66
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 35, highest is Google on 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a dystopian future, Los Angeles has been converted into a maximum-security island prison for the worst criminals. A former soldier turned fugitive is given a mission: infiltrate LA and retrieve a doomsday device that has been stolen by the President’s rogue daughter. He has only a few hours to navigate the anarchic, gang-ruled cityscape, complete his task, and escape before a missile strike destroys everything.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writers
- Debra Hill, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell
- Released
- 9 August 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $42.3M
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