Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security...
1980s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 2, 2019 · Last modified June 3, 2019
Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security...
It’s painful to see a once mighty filmmaker like Sam Peckinpah fail, especially when it is a catastrophe on this level. Convoy is perhaps one of the weirdest of the late Seventies films about truckers and...
Ernest Borgnine plays Sam Paxton, a Texas rancher who comes home one day to find his son dead and his daughter missing, and the only clue as to the perpetrator comes in the form...
1990s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 24, 1998 · Last modified February 14, 2019
Sometime in the near future, as the opening credits state, human beings are genetically produced so that they have the best traits possible. It is expected that these “valid” humans succeed and become mental...
A band of ruthless outlaws rob a bank in the early 1900s but face an ambush by equally ruthless bounty hunters. They head for the Mexican border and join up with a gang of...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.