Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is back in Escape from L.A., the 1996 sequel to John Carpenter's Escape from New York.
America has become even more dystopian than it was in the earlier film: A theocratic fundamentalist Christian President (Cliff Robertson) has taken over control of the country, and Los Angeles has become penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel after breaking off of the US thanks to The Big One. As the film begins, an airplane escape pod has crash-landed in Los Angeles; this pod carried The President's Daughter, Utopia (A. J. Langer), who has since sided with Cuervo Jones and taken the United State's super weapon — a device that controls "The Sword of Damocles" satellite system, which would let the President hit any country in the world with an electromagnetic pulse — with her. The President drafts Snake into entering Los Angeles, retrieving the device, and executing his daughter for treason. His reward for a successful mission will be a full pardon...as well as an antidote to a virus injected into him to ensure his compliance, of course.
Left with no options, Snake enters the fortified and barbwired city of Los Angeles; like New York before it, the city has become a prison with no guards and precious little order. As Plissken makes his way through ruins of what was once a vibrant and lively city, he both gains and loses allies, fights off loads of bad guys, and...

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