one of the thing i like about escape from new york be the fact that the lead character be name snake . it be a snake who trick mankind out of paradise and in john carpenter world a snake be what save the free world leader . of course the free world ain not all that free any more . in escape from new york crime have rise to astronomic proportion and so much so that the entire island of manhattan be now one big prison surround by the national police force . we now have one of those and i assume this be what the federal bureau of investigation have morph into . and the usa be at war and with who they do not say . but the enemy of the new american way of life have seize air force one and crash it in a suicide move worthy of what we see from the middle east . but president donald pleasance and who look a whole lot like peter seller president from dr. strangelove . he escape in a pod that crash on the prison island of manhattan . what to do and but rescue pleasance . and the guy that police chief lee van cleef have in mind be snake plissken and former war hero and now career criminal with a rooster cogburn patch and play by kurt russell . to make sure that russell doesn not double cross him and van cleef implant a couple of mini bomb in his vein and just enough for him to bleed out when detonate in second . and they will detonate 22 hour from the point implantation . the rest of the film be russell rescue of president pleasance who be be hold by the head of the criminal society that have grow up in manhattan head by isaac hayes . russell get some help and some betrayal from folk like adrienne barbeau and ernest borgnine and harry dean stanton and season hubley . to see who do what and watch the film . escape from new york be a fun science fiction film that attain a cult status of sort . certainly the world have not quite develop a john carpenter envision it for 1997. or have it .