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54

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Could have been better
Review: 54 could have been a lot better. I watched this movie late at night to get the feel of it, but there wasn't much to feel for. What I got was a fictional story between Hayek, Philippe, and Campbell. When you try to mix fiction (the above characters) in with fact (Steve Rubell and the Studio 54 legend), it mucks up what could've been a great movie. The movie should have concentrated its script on what Studio 54 was. Rather than showing Philippe getting it on with Sela Ward (Poor Sela must've been hard up to get this role) and trying to score with Campbell. Don't get me wrong, it was an okay film. It's just that a whole lot of potential was wasted on a fictional story (a la Titanic), rather than dealing with the facts. If you really want to know what Studio 54 was like, check out VH1's "Behind the Music" special on it. It gives you more detail on the club that we all wished we could've got into.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dear Lord....please make the hurting stop....
Review: WUZZUP? DO U TIPE LIKE DIZ? IF U DO U MITE LIKE DIZ MOVEE--ITZ WAY KEWL! 2 DA XTREEEM!

Ummm....seriously, ignore most of the reviews below unless the sum of your age and IQ are less than 100. This is quite possibly the worst movie ever made--if not for Mike Myers's performance it would have locked up last place by a wide margin. As it stands I would place it in a close race with "Batman & Robin", "Showgirls" and "Wild Wild West".

What hurt most was not the excrutiating mental anguish of watching Ryan Phillipe's execrable performance or the stench of incompetence hanging over practically the entire production. No, what really gets me is that I wasted 86 minutes of my life watching this garbage--time I could have spent doing something more exciting like trimming my nose hairs or sanding grout from my bathroom tiles. Those 86 minutes are gone forever...I can NEVER get them back.

I would give this movie negative stars if I could, but instead I'll do my best to warn the unsuspecting public. If I can save one person from the horror that is this "flick" (truly a fate worse than death) then I will die a happy man. STEER CLEAR OF THIS MOVIE!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Where is the movie?
Review: This movie is as deep as a puddle. Where's the story? Get Boogie Nights or Summer of Sam. This thing plays like a video for it's soundtrack (which is infinitely better!)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An interesting drama, with strong supporting performances
Review: During the seventies, the 54 studio was the most famous, celebrated and disputed disco around in New York. It was the house of the polemic Steve Rubell, a man willing to satisfy his rich customers' desiree, influential people such as Gore Vidal and Princess Grace. 54 , an original and interesting drama, is almost a documentary of the hot and sensual nights placed inside the club,but it also narrates Shane's saga, a youth who sees in the disco the chance of a life time in stablishing himself as a respectable and powerful person, and the plot narrates the ascension and the decadence of Shane, Rubell, the 54 and of the seventies fever. Very similar to Boogie Nights (although inferior), this drama delivers great surprises, like Mike Meyers's dramatic and talented performance, unrecognizable as the homosexual and crazed Rubell. With strong moments and, per times, explicit and shocking scenes, the filmmaker Mark Christopher demonstrates courage and daring in his craft. Christopher knows that the basic elements of the story are dangerous and may mean the film's failure(drugs, sex) but, instead of attenuating the explosive issues, he explores them in a realistic and direct way, and this is evident in memorable minutes (Ryan Phillippe and Sela Ward have the most difficult part) . For those who want to see a vigorous drama about the violence, the madness, the pleasures and the drugs that marked the seventies, 54 is a great option. For those who just want to have a good time with a lineal and pleasant film, 54 is also a good choice!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DVD makes a great movie even better
Review: The first time I saw this movie I thought it needed more. I was pleased to see that when I bought the DVD version of 54 there was a lot more. The DVD version adds scenes that aren't on the original. It goes into Ryan Phillipe's and Selma Hayek's characters relationship a whole lot more. Plus the DVD has a lot of special feature. A must get for any collector!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You just want to be there!
Review: Ryan Phillipe does a great job of playing Shane O Shea who suddenly gets the lucky job of been a bar tender. His dream girl, Julie Black (hot Neve Campbell) is now getting a bit friendly with him and she plays a tiny bit of a slut but Neve still rocks in this film. But she doesn't exactly play the main parts - Salma Hayek and Mike Myers and of course Ryan Phillipe (who's telling the story) get most of the part but Neve's stunning looks as Julie Black are 2 die 4! An excellent movie that makes you want to go back to the 70's and be the most popular guy in 54! WAHOO!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Mike Myers was awsome!
Review: When I saw this movie with my mother, we were both very offended by the sexual content. Even though I didn't like this movie so much, I give it 5 stars for Mike Myers' dramatic acting. I never knew that he could act so seriously and well. Its hard to believe that the same actor created and acted in the movie,"Wayne's World".

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: awesome but true
Review: A a former disco mania fan myself I felt that Neve Campbell who played Julie Black did a very good job. It is a lot better that Saturday Night Fever. Why you had more of a variety of disco tunes. Studio 54 was one place were you got discovered or just passed over.

Too bad they cannot bring it back to life again. Mike Meyers played a good part as Steve Rubell.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: amazing... simpally amazing...
Review: as a supermodel in today's world, i never got to be in the actual studio 54'. but of-course, i heard so many wonderful things about the club, and the life-style itself. being born in 78, i only got to see what the 90's bring, and living in NY of the 90's, i used to think it is better than anything else... until' i saw Studio 54'. studio 54' shows the exact era that i, personaly, wish that we had now. Mike, and Ryan are amazing, and Selma and Neve were breath-taking.

all i have to say, is that if you know what was going on the Studio 54', than you know that the movie reflects just that...

amazing... simpally amazing...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Mike Myers??
Review: The movie itself is somewhat good but I was just in awe at the performance given by Mike Myers. What a 360 from Austin Powers and Wayne's World. His ability to pull this role off makes me give this baby 4 stars alone. The only other actor who could play both a comedic and dramatic role is Tom Hanks, and Mike Myers is twice as funny as Hanks ever was. To continuie I don't think Hanks could have done as good!


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