The year is 2013. The girl joins Cuervo in the City of Angels, and in her possession is a device that controls satellites which can drain electricity from any location around the world. They inject Snake with a virus that will kill him in 10 hours. An antidote will only be given if Snake enters L.A., kills Utopia, and retrieves the device. The first film is a tightly wound thriller, while L.A. is packed with pure action and social satire.
Snake constantly gets out of one intense situation and is immediately thrown into another.
What's great is the movie goes on its merry way with reckless abandon. The filmmakers throw in everything they can think of and don't look back, like Snake surfing down Wilshire Boulevard. Forget the fact that when Snake catches a wave, he's fighting a fever, has a fresh bullet in his leg, and probably has never picked up a surfboard in his life. The blue screen effects in this scene are wonderfully cheesy, like right out of a Frankie Avalon beach party epic. Before that wet and wild stint, Snake has to play a deadly game of basketball in the L.A. Coliseum.