Fuga dal Bronx

(1983) Escape 2000/ Escape From the Bronx/ Fuga dal Bronx DUBBED SCIENCE FICTION ACTION THRILLER

A dystopian movie cross between "Escape In New York" and "The Warriors" with Italian financing depicting the Bronx as a slums area with the mayors and representatives attempting to kill it's citizens off as opposed to re-locating. Co-written and directed by Enzo G. Castellari with Trash (Mark Gregory) on the run while he and others are being pursued by Floyd Wrangler (Henry Silva) and his extermination Disinfestors squad for the purpose of rebuilding the environment. Ordered by the President to eliminate anyone who is infected. Forgettable but very watchable.

Who was honored at a special "psychotronic" screening at the

Paris cinematheque. This one came second after a fairly decent

war movie. During Q&A, Castellari did not hide the fact that, for the

first movie, Mark Gregory was hired in a Gym in Roma, for his

physique more than his non-existent acting skills, which he proved

in several movies. Castellari stressed the fact that he was

disappointed with Gregory in this one, since he had lost a lot of

muscular weight (maybe that's why he never looses his jacket ?

And no closes-up, hiding his non-existent acting skills) Anyhoo, it

never was an actor to begin with, that is obvious. Anybody knows

what became of him ? (Castellari is a pretty nice and jovial man,

BTW, very open and straightforward during Q&A) I still think this sequel is better than the original, for what it's worth.

Both had huge releases in Europe, with impressive posters, and

made good money. Now, you have the same with 50 mil budgets,

a few MTV stars and special effects galore… Go figure !

My review was written in January 1985 after a screening at Cine 42 on Manhattan's 42nd St.

"Escape from the Bronx" is a thinly plotted followup by the same Italian filmmakers who made one of Vic Morrow's last features, "1990: The Bronx Warriors". Prospects are quite limited at the nation's action houses.

Mark Gregory returns, circa the year 2000, as Trash, one of the survivors of gang warfare in the sci-fi extrapolation of New York City's problems. Story, heavily indebted to John Carpenter's "Escape from New York", has the General Construction Corp. Hiring Wangler (Henry Silva) to exterminate the residents of the Bronx, while manipulating the press and public into believing that the populace is being relocated to new housing in New Mexico. Scheme is to raze the Bronx and build luxury housing there.

A crusading reporter, Moon (Valeria D'Obici, star of Ettore Scola's "Passione D'Amore") tries to help the Bronx denizens, coming up with the idea of kidnapping G. C. Corp.'s president as a bargaining chip. Master thief Strike (Timothe Brent) is recruited to pull off the caper, but the dull second half of the picture consists largely of nihilistic shootouts in place of plot twists.

Director Enzo G. Castellari's action style is overly heavy on slow motion balletics in place of the exciting chases which made "The Road Warrior" and latterly "The Terminator" hits in this genre. Cast, including a cute son to help out Strike, is merely functional, but pic is aided by acceptable post-synching of English-articulated dialog.

This post-apocalyptic film is a barrage of non-stop action and cheese. A ruthless corporation decides to exterminate inhabitants of the Bronx. In the future. In the year 2000. The said inhabitants from the future, strangely resemble every conceivable type of pop star from the early 1980's; from synth pop futurists to New Wave cheesemongers to heavy metal poodle-permers. Funnily enough, it only appears to be 'the future' in the Bronx - on the streets of Manhattan it clearly seems to be 1983. Confused? You should be; this is after all an 80's Italian sci-fi actioner.

Bronx Warriors 2 is full of action and stupidity. It's a lot of fun. It's chock-full of silly characters. The star Mark Gregory makes for a ridiculous hero. Antonio Sabato is hilariously OTT as a character inexplicably called Toblerone. Henry Silva phones in a performance of a man shouting on a phone.

You can never truthfully be bored with this movie. It's action from start to finish. And there are some hilarious details to enjoy. For instance, the model of the redeveloped city - in it, not only have they went to the trouble of hilariously depicting the Bronx buildings in crumbling detail but if this is true to scale then the Bronx is only three blocks big! This film would make a great double-bill alongside Bruno Mattei's equally trashy post-apocalyptic movie, Rats (1984). That would be a good night of fun for the Italian Z-Movie aficionado. Ciao!

Agreeable fun'science-fiction/action romp packing kinetic action , thrills, intrigue , shocks , lots of blood , violence and full of death toll . Including spectacular stunt-work plenty of crossfire , crashes and violent fights , adding shootouts , stabbing , throating-slit , slashing and blowing-up . It's 1990 and the Bronx's New York society breaks down into two sides which has become a battleground for several murderous street bands , marauding delinquents , and degenerate slums trash . In this future , crime is out of control and the Bronx turned into an inhabitable location and finds itself under siege by violent gangs with rare weapons fighting each other . As Manhattan being inhabited by gangs as the street hockey players wielding hockey sticks and by a tougher-looking gang , the Bronx Warriors led by Trash , among others . As it stars Trash/Mark Gregory again who will fight amid his ruined city against cutthroats , gangs of depraved crazies thirsty for blood and survive some battles to-the-death with lots of blood and gore . On the other side of the bridge , a corrupt corporation sends violent agents and extermination squads to throw out inhabitants at whatever cost . In the middle of this chaos Trash embarks a spectacular defence against vicious murderous with flamethrowers . Trash helped by a sympathetic bomb-maker (Timothy Brent) and his equally psychopathic preschool son (Brent Jr) and an annoying activist reporter Moon Grey (Valeria D'Obici) out by kidnapping "the President" (Ennio Girolami) and contending their main enemy the psychopath killer called Floyd Wrangler (Henry Silva). The first to die were the lucky ones! Who will survive when no one deserves to live? A Heavy Metal Journey Into An Urban . Hell Where Everything Has Gone Wrong! .The lucky ones were the first to die! Now only the deadliest man alive can save him . Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane. Once You go In, You don't Come Out... Until Today .The first to die were the lucky ones!They're blasting back in a bloody battle for the Bronx!The year is 2000. Two savage armies battle for supremacy over a shattered wasteland!1995 A.D.- The Bronx is Declared "A High Risk Area"They're Back! .They're back and out for blood! They're blasting back in a bloody battle for the Bronx! The year is 2000. Two savage armies battle for supremacy over a shattered wasteland!1995 A.D.- The Bronx is Declared "A High Risk Area"They're Back! .They're back and out for blood!

This film is a comic book plenty of action , fun , adventures , thriller and surprise-filled entertainment . This is the sequel to 1990 : Bronx warriors (1982), set in a post-apocalyptic New York City , a Castellari Sci-Fi movie with lots of frantic action , fights , and amusement . Italian post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi filled with chills , noisy action and spectacular scenes in slow-moving . And a very high body-count thanks to shootings , explosions , flamethrowering, stabbing, off-screen killing , electrocutions , bashing in the face with helmets , shootings in cold bood , and faces turned to red mush after being hit with shotgun butt . The movie likely satisfy action enthusiasts and Italian Sci-Fi fonds . Adequate plethora of characters with average performances by its entire main and support cast . Nice costuming and evocative production design in which the Bronx has officially been declared a "No Man's Land" devoid of any law , there live several urban tribes , with weird post-apocalyptic costumes , as Trash's riders and strange guys dressed in fiberglass safety gear and others in plastic dresses . Lousily starred by Mark Gregory as the tough and valiant renegade leader of the two-fisted Riders . Fine plethora of secondaries with familiar faces for its entire support cast such as : Antonio Sabato , Valeria D'Obici , Giancarlo Prete as Timothy Brent , Paolo Malco and special mention for the usually baddie Henry Silva . And other ordinary secondaries from Italian B series as director himself Enzo G. Castellari , his brother Ennio Girolami , some of them played lots of Spaghetti , Peplum , Giallo and customary genres of the 60s and 70s . Climatic musical score by Francesco De Masi as well as functional cinematography by Blasco Giurato . The picture is a rip-off from¨The Warriors¨by Walter Hill and ¨1997 , and Escape from New York¨ by John Carpenter that was also followed an inferior sequel : ¨Escape from L.A.¨.

The picture was professionally directed by the prolific filmmaker Enzo G Castellari who spent 2 weeks filming in N.Y. , Bronx included . This sequel titled : "Escape from the Bronx" aka "Escape 2000" aka "Bronx Warriors 2" results to be similar to original ¨1990 Bronx Warriors¨. Talented and versatile writer/director Enzo G Castellari has made a array often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror , Giallo , comedy , Western , and science fiction in a career that spans over 40 years . He made especially Westerns as ¨ Johnny Hamlet , Kill them everybody and came back alone, Seven Winchester for a massacre, ¨ and the masterpiece : ¨Keoma¨ . And successful wartime movies as ¨Eagles over London¨ , as well as Adventures : ¨Tuareg¨, ¨Adventures and loves of Scaramouche¨ , Simbad¨, "The Shark Hunter" , Poliziesco : "Day of the Cobra" , ¨Striker¨, ¨Heroin Busters¨ and Sci-Fi : ¨1990 : Bronx warriors¨ , "The New Barbarians : Warriors of the Wasteland" , "Escape from the Bronx" . This is a passable Sci-Fi movie , it is an imaginative Sci-Fi picture in which the camera stalks in moving style throughout a story with agreeable visual skills . This is a bewildering story , funny in some moment but falls flat and it will appeal to Science Fiction and Italian exploitation fans.