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Summary: This Movie 25 Years Ahead Of It's Time - Highly Recommend
Review: It's Super Bowl Sunday at the Los Angeles Coliseum and there is a sniper ready to shoot. This movie has an all-star cast: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes and his wife, actress Gena Rowlands, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Walter Pidgeon, David Groh, Pamela Bellwood, Ron Sheldon and many more. The sniper is ready to shoot at one person sitting in the stadium. (Which Hollywood star will be the one he shoots?) Watch the film to know the secret. Who is the sniper? When will he shoot? Who will he shoot? All these secrets will be revealed as the suspense builds. This DVD version is the original theatrical version. This is not the NBC Network version were 63 minutes of new footage was added and the sniper storyline changed. NBC also cut out some of the shooting. This original version on DVD may be okay to watch three hours before the real Super Bowl Football game in January.
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Summary: Watch this 3 hours before the real SuperBowl Football Game.
Review: It's Super Bowl Sunday at the Los Angeles Coliseum and there is a sniper ready to shoot. This movie has an all-star cast: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes and his wife, actress Gena Rowlands, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Walter Pidgeon, David Groh, Pamela Bellwood, Ron Sheldon and many more. The sniper is ready to shoot at one person sitting in the stadium. (Which Hollywood star will be the one he shoots?) Watch the film to know the secret. Who is the sniper? When will he shoot? Who will he shoot? All these secrets will be revealed as the suspense builds. This DVD version is the original theatrical version. This is not the NBC Network version were 63 minutes of new footage was added and the sniper storyline changed. NBC also cut out some of the shooting. This original version on DVD may be okay to watch three hours before the real Super Bowl Football game in January.
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Summary: You've got to be kidding me
Review: See Leonard Maltin's review. I love Chuckie, but this movie has no point other than violence is senseless. I already knew that.
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Summary: Super thriller will disturb viewer
Review: The teaming of Charlton Heston and John Cassavetes seems about as unlikely a cinematic match as one could imagine. So it comes as a terrific surprise when watching "Two Minute Warning" to see these practically opposite veterans working together so well.We've seen Mr. Heston tread through such territory before ("Earthquake," "Airport 1975," "Gray Lady Down"), but Cassavetes as an especially intense SWAT team leader provides a unique presence that raises the level of this disaster/thriller several notches. There is practically smoke flaring from his nostrils as he puts his comrades into position to stop a sniper dangerously perched above the scoreboard at the Super Bowl. The sight of Heston and Cassavetes staring each other down in a match of wills (Chuck is a veteran Los Angeles policeman who seems to love knit ties) would almost be comic if not for the intensity both actors bring to the table. These scenes are some of the strongest in the film. "Two Minute Warning" has been conveniently placed into the "Disaster" genre of the 1970s for a number of reasons. Mainly the large cast of supporting players (Martin Balsam, Gena Rowlands, Jack Klugman, Beau Bridges, David Janssen) and the eventual riot at the Super Bowl which does indeed lead to a disaster of epic proportions. But calling "Two Minute Warning" a simple disaster film is not entirely correct. What makes "Two Minute Warning" stand apart from this specific genre is the uncomfortable realization most viewers will encounter while watching the violent proceedings play out. For better or for worse, snipers do exist in our society. Acts of random violence are commonplace. Innocent bystanders catch stray bullets in the streets of our cities often. What happens in "Two Minute Warning" has happened before and will definitely happen again. In fact, this film has now taken on an entirely new meaning with the recent terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. (...) "Two Minute Warning" is extremely watchable due to a glittering cast, taut direction (Larry Peerce) and what-is-becoming a timeless screenplay. But such a guilty pleasure will cause the viewer to feel just that. Guilty. It hits too close to home.
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Summary: This Movie 25 Years Ahead Of It's Time - Highly Recommend
Review: The Two Minute Warning was a movie that seemed to have been forgotten about by most people that saw it at the movie theater back in the 70's. America did not want to accept this movie like they did all the Rocky films because everyone likes happy endings. People even accepted the Godfather which was filmed 4 years prior to the Two Minute Warning. There were many violent killings in the Godfather but people accepted the movie and it is still selling to this day. I saw the Two Minute Warning at the theater when it was released. I later watched the same version I saw at the theater on HBO. I was 20 years old when I first saw this movie and it stuck out in my mind and it was a movie I never forgot about. Nobody wanted to really accept this movie back then because they felt it was violent. Others felt that it was far fetched and this could never happen in America. Well whether they didn't want to face it back then or even today this movie was the wake up call which was ignored clear back in 1976. This is our society today!!!! If this movie would have been made 2 years ago everyone would take note and be serious about it. I have read other peoples reviews about this movie and they feel that stadium security at the championship game would have grabbed this guy. If you pay attention to the time when this movie was made security back then was laxed and nobody ever dreamed that this was possible. It is this same feeling of taking for granted that this could never happen that led America to 9-11 and the sniper killings in the D.C. area a couple years ago. I would highly recommend anyone who thinks you are safe everyday of your life to WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!! I am not a violent person and I don't condone the violence in this movie. However if you watch this movie you'll see how any screen writer in Hollywood could pick up a copy of the USA TODAY in the last 2 or 3 years and write the script for the Two Minute Warning. THIS IS A MOVIE EVERYONE IN AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE AND TAKE SERIOUSLY. DON"T EVER TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT THIS MOVIE IS FAR FETCHED AND COULD NEVER HAPPEN. OPEN YOUR EYES. IT'S HAPPENING AROUND US EVERYDAY!!!!!!!
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Summary: One of the best disaster movies from the 1970s
Review: This 1976 release is hugely suspenseful and very realistic indeed, largely due to the photography(the stadium footage works a treat!), direction and good strong cast of familiar faces. Charlton Heston plays Captain Pete Holly, a hard-boiled cop whose initial investigation of a random shooting(seen at the start) leads him to a championship football game at the LA Coliseum - a sniper is perched above the scoreboard! When the time comes, the sniper will kill a target - or several? WHo is he after? In the crowd are a noisy family(DYNASTY's PAmela Bellwood is the mom, Beau Bridges is the dad and sniper witness brutalised by over-zealous cops and there are two mischievous brats!), a gambler facing loan sharks(QUINCY's Jack Klugman) and prayers from a priest sitting next to him for LA to win! Add to that the President visiting at half time, a pickpocket(Walter Pidgeon), and the TV crews being commandeered by SWAT captain JOHN CASSAVETES and keeping it quiet from the public, and you have a killer of a movie(no pun intended) which will have you hooked from beginning to end. The original 115 minute cinema release is the best way to see this classic - forget the awful network TV doctored version which in my view ruined a great story. THe pace moves along well and there are moments which will genuinely give you mild shocks or two! Overall, a superb thriller and a movie which explores the theme of random killing quite well, especially in the wake of recent real-life massacres such as Dunblane and Hungerford in the UK. One could also say that the climax might have inspired Jean-Claude Van Damme's similarly superb SUDDEN DEATH. which came about 21 years later. Recommended.
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Summary: Charlton Heston against the bad guy.
Review: This film has to be one of the best suspect thrillers of the 1970's.Charlton Heston as LAPD Capt Pete Holly has got a big problem with a crazed sniper atop the score tower at a championship football game.Knowning he cannot resolve the situation himself,he has to call in a SWAT Team to dipose of the killer.When Chris Button arrives the SWAT Sargeant,the two of them look at a way to protect 91,000 football fans.The film has a PickPocket,Gambler,Priest and irrate crew members.The film has good pace,suspence,good story and good cast.But all-in-all,it shows how a Police SWAT Team would deal with this type of incident.It's one of my top 5 films,i loved it.
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Summary: Good 70's action flick
Review: This is an interesting movie, especially in light of what's happened in this country over the last 30+ years.
Filmed in and around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1976. Very low tech by todays standards, but that is part of the appeal. It's always fun to see the old cars, fashions and technology.
There is a long list of stars, as with most movies of this era: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes,Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Gena Rowlands, and even Walter Pidgeon as a pickpocket.
The plot revolves around an unidentified sniper during a championship football game with a sold-out crowd. Unfortunately, you never learn his identity, his target or his motivation.
There are some terrible lines in this movie. The acting is fair to good. The best scene was near the end, when the police are shooting it out with the sniper, and the television crews are watching it all from their trailer.
Overall it's a fair movie that's intersting as a snapshot of our culture during the 70's.
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Summary: More than your typical diaster flick
Review: Two Minute Warning deals with a unknown sniper at the Super Bowl. Opening shots of a early-dawn serene L. A. and its Coliseum show thoughtfulness in Director Peerce's (Other Side of the Mountain) film about the crisscross of peoples' lives and how they are affected when events later lead to violence. Nicely acted by most of the cast in a film that tries to be more than just another disaster film from Universal (Airport, etc.) Editorial comment comes in at the ending when we never find out who the sniper is or why he does it . . . the unknown assailant in our society. Now available in DVD, this wide format film is finally presented in Letterbox so it can be viewed in its entirety as the director filmed it. The DVD transfer is excellent.
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Summary: good movie
Review: very unique movie. done very well. violence is not thrown in your face, you know this faceless man is going to shoot to kill, but you never really know when.this movie shows very lttle blood so its not a goory fim at all.this film is very under rated,its to bad few people have seen this film, i seen this film when it came to theaters and i loved it and highl recommend this film,very good movie, worth the money to rent or buy
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