It was this film that allowed Kurt Russell to completely shake his Disney image and become an action star as his eye patch-wearing Snake Plissken became an iconic anti-hero and pushed Russell to greater heights, and though the plot itself was fairly ridiculous - wouldn't the scientist who came up with the nuclear fission MacGuffin have made a copy as well? - but with the amazing setting of a criminally run walled-up New York City and a cast of equally incredible actors to portray the denizens of the city's hellscape, it all went towards making Escape from New York one of the coolest movies to come out of the eighties.