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Summary: THIS IS A MASTERPIECE
Review: THIS FILM HAD IT ALL. THIS IS PROBABLY ROBERT SHAW'S FINEST WORK EVER. IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE SUSPENSFUL THAN THIS. VERY CRAFTY AND YET PRETTY INTENSE TOWARDS THE END. IT ACTUALLY HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THE TERRORIST PROBLEMS WE'RE FACING TODAY. THIS HAS TO GO TO DVD IMEADIATLY.
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Summary: Where's the DVD?
Review: This movie needs to be on DVD.Not only is it a great action movie with some of the most breathtaking aerial photography ever filmed, but it is one of Director John Frankenheimer's best films (Remember Manchurian Candidate? Seconds? The Train?). Unfortunately, John Frankenheimer has directed a stream of bad movies, like Reindeer Games, The General's Daughter,recently, so true Frankenheimer fans must go back to his past great films to get their fix. My question is, where is the DVD of this great film? And what about Seconds? Are the studios listening? If you can't wait for the DVD, then buy the video and watch it 3 or 4 times. The movie is that good. From the writer of Silence of the Lambs.
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Summary: Terrific Action/Suspense Film -- Message Right On Target
Review: This movie, based on a book by Thomas Harris ("Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon") is a terrific action-thriller about a terrorist plot to inflict mass casualties upon attendees at a Super Bowl game (which the Cowboys just BARELY lost, by the way). Robert Shaw portrayed the operative determined to stop the plot. His methods were extremely direct and effective -- he simply eliminated terrorists wherever he encountered them (except during a moment of weakness, when he came upon Marthe in the shower, at the first of the film, which proved to be a costly mistake). Shaw's character acted in a totally unilateral fashion, never halting to form a coalition or obtain United Nations approval. He never whined, "Why do they hate us?" He did not reach out to the terrorists with a friendly hand bearing tolerance, inclusion, diversity or compassion. His intent was to protect people from being attacked by terrorists, and he knew that the only way to do that is to kill them first -- he knew that NOTHING else works, against terrorists determined to kill you. He was absolutely right, and that's why everyone liked his character so much.
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Summary: Terrorism Hits Home--A Prelude Of Things To Come?
Review: Thought it is unusually long, at close to 143 minutes, BLACK SUNDAY is an incredible example of suspense at its finest. This is because there is a master in the director's chair, John Frankenheimer. He managed to get his hands on a great story back in 1976 that, approaching the film's 25th anniversary of release, has taken on an added significance in the wake of September 11, 2001. Breaking it all down to its prime components, BLACK SUNDAY involves a dastardly plot conceived by an unhinged Vietnam vet (Bruce Dern) and a member (Marthe Keller) of the infamous Black September terrorist organization to turn the Super Bowl into "a kill zone for 80,000 people" (as Dern describes it), and the efforts of an Israeli agent (Robert Shaw) and FBI agent (Fritz Weaver) to stop them. Frankenheimer, however, weaves a lot of different strands together and wraps it all up with a superbly mounted aerial chase between the two pairs of protagonists in the skies over Miami that involves a hijacked Goodyear blimp loaded with a quarter million rifle darts. Shaw manages to disable the blimp as it heads towards Miami's Orange Bowl, site of the Super Bowl; but the blimp continues on and soon plunges right into the packed stadium. This scene must rank as one of the most frightening in the cinema ever. Shaw and Weaver are well-matched against Dern and Keller, and the excellent, almost Brucknerian, score by John Williams is nearly as brilliant as the one he composed for Spielberg's JAWS. As a prelude to DIE HARD, THE SIEGE, and SPEED, BLACK SUNDAY is an absolute must-see!
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Summary: Black Sunday
Review: Very tight political thriller! Some of our younger viewers my not understand the real impact of this film, and in doing so, will deny themselves the real enjoyment of a good film. True, there might be moments in this film that would be considered shocking, but the purpose here it quite simple, yet obvious. To show the lengths that some terrorists will go to make their point, and the ingenious methods they can employ. I highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a great cat and mouse thriller in the same vein as The Jackal.
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Summary: A film years ahead of its time.
Review: WOW! I enjoyed this movie all the way through. I hope they re-make this movie with the same director. I've never seen a movie to this day that captures Miami the way this movie did.
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