A few thoughts: You know how reserved and generally understated Escape From NY is? Well let's just toss that out the window for the sequel, a movie so nuts it features scenes involving life or death basketball, surfing onto cars, and plastic surgery mishaps who basically feed on getting new operations. It's all so crazy, it's hard for me not to like it. But there is a limit to how much I can enjoy something like this. It's weird to me that this movie even exists, considering how John Carpenter movies are generally more subtle than this, but I think he went slightly mad in the '90s. The acting is fine, the sets are much more intricate than the first film, but with the '90s came lousy CG, which this movie has in good supply. Not quite the craziest action movie of its time, but seeing Snake Plissken back and as "tough and cool" as ever is still fun. If it weren't so exaggerated, the movie would feel a lot like a remake of the first movie, but because of this wild tone, it definitely comes across as a sequel that tried to one-up the original -- and that failure is fun to witness.
People with a high tolerance for stupidity in their action movies, or big fans of Carpenter and/or Russell.
My grade: C-
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