New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020

This sleekly packaged apocalyptic nightmare is a variant of the resurgent ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK formula, with the metropolis of the near future serving as one big maximum-security prison. For anyone who lives in an urban center these days, the concept isn't much of a stretch.

Rescued from the gas chamber, prisoner Ricks (Rick Rossovich) is granted a last-minute reprieve by General Wisnorski (Stacy Keach), the dictatorial chief of the LAPD. To secure his freedom, Ricks must penetrate the infamous crime zones of post-quake Los Angeles; he's charged with foiling an extortion plot by arch-fiend Ironhead (Rick Dean), who threatens to infect the decent folk of greate...