Review of Escape from New Jersey

I believe there's 2 "Escape from" movies by director John Carpenter and here we have a fan film that follows up on the story of Snake Plissken played by Kurt Russell. Of course, for this project they did not get the latter on board to reprise his role, but instead we have Hector De La Rosa giving us his take on the role and the result is pretty much a Latin version of Snake Plissken. This film was made back in 2010, so it is already almost a decade old and it's one of writer and director Chris R. Notarile's earlier effort I believe and also one that does not belong to the horror genre, the area where he had his biggest successes with horror short films featuring legendary characters. Anyway, this one here runs for 42.5 minutes and this means it is still a short movie, a fairly long one though and longer than most other stuff by Notarile. The protagonist is not a superhero or anything, but faces dangerous situations here and there and thanks to his skills and capability, he eventually gets out of these. Some violence, some gun shooting, some hot chicks and you have the formula. This is decent for a fan-made movie I would say, they probably made okay use of the budget, but as a movie overall, of course it comes a bit short and is not among the very best I have seen by Notarile, nowhere near actually. By the way, this is by far not the only movie where De La Rosa plays Plissken, he even starred in some where he directed himself and worked on other occasions with Notarile too. By the way, the latter here also appears in front of the camera. All in all, an okay story with tolerable acting, but shoddy execution, especially in terms of camera work and editing result in this one having more letdowns than positive aspects. You may wanna skip this one, also feels a bit too long for its own good sometimes.