Reception
Escape from L.A. earned $25,477,365 in the United States, about as much as its predecessor, but little more than half its significantly higher budget.
The film received a 58% rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on various critics' reviews. Critics panned the film's gratuitous action sequences, which were significantly scaled up from the previous film, and which many critics felt added little to the film. Some felt it was an attempt to satirize the genre while exploiting it. Roger Ebert states, " has such manic energy, such a weird, cockeyed vision, that it may work on some moviegoers as satire and on others as the real thing."
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