No, 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK does not live up to that poster. But, then again, what possibly could? But it’s hardly a bait-and-switch, as Sergio Martino’s transparent “tribute” to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (with smatterings of MAD MAX) does, indeed, include most of the elements on display, including oddly-shaped laser guns and knife-wielding monkey men. We’ll just consider these visuals to be a bit of playful exaggeration.     BOOM! WHOA! Yeah, this is, as you might have guessed, one of a number of Italian post-apocalyptic rip-offs that peppered cinemas in the early 1980s, though this one is
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