Escape 2000
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Carmen Duncan, Michael Craig, Noel Ferrier, Olivia Hussey, Steve Railsback Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Brand: Fox Producer: Antony I. Ginnane Producer: Brian W. Cook Writer: David Lawrence Writer: George Schenck Writer: Jon George Writer: Neill D. Hicks Writer: Robert Williams DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 80 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-10-21 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay |
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Movie Reviews of Escape 2000
Movie Review: Maybe Back in the Day
Summary: 2 Stars
Even Quentin Tarantino tips his hat to Escape 2000's director Brian Trenchard Smith and I'm not certain why after seeing this. The Amazon reviewers are very kind here. And since I saw this as a gaping hole in my viewing history I thought I'd see what Quentin and these reviewers saw here. I'm baffled.
Totalitarian society. Re-education camps. Hunting humans for sport. This is an amalgam of ideas thrown together and none of them are done justice. Maybe if I had seen this back during its original release I might have been impressed. I gather from the user reviews that the positive reviews are from those that HAD seen it originally. But for my dollar it hasn't withstood the test of time. This Aussie endeavor was released in 1982, three years after Mad Max, and the directing is pedestrian by comparison. True, there isn't much budget here but Mad Max couldn't have cost much more. And, as Mad Max was George Miller's directorial debut, the difference is even more striking.
There are holes all over the place. The hunters have obviously done this before but none of them handle their weapons with any degree of proficiency. The Steve Railsback character gets his hands on a weapon not once, but twice and chooses to leave them be. The Griff character gets the jump on his pursuer but instead of killing him he hangs him upside down from a tree and fashions an impossibly heavy and cumbersome booby trap that will kill him when his buds try to cut him down. This movie is full of crazy stuff like this.
There is so little sense here and the directing is so inept I just don't get what all the hubbub is about. If you need to fill in some gaps in your film history as I have, then have at it. If not.....skip it.