A Town that has the Dodgers Doesn't Need a Football Team
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
directed by Larry Peerce
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Cinefile
In earlier decades, Heston’s name would still be above the title, but you wouldn’t need to see the poster to know it. If some whacko with a rifle takes position behind the scoreboard of a crowded football stadium, Chuck’s the man who brings him in. But people were paranoid in 1976 and cocaine was a popular drug. So not only does the screenwriter make Heston a minor law enforcement official in a splintered cast of about two dozen, but the director becomes so obsessed with the chaos a panic fifty-thousand strong might inspire that not one potential sniper victim is spared. When the shooting starts, it doesn’t stop. The mood is desolate and the devastation startling; people turn on each other like zombies. I’m not a survivalist, so the movie doesn’t exploit my fears, but I’m glad that survivalists tend to live in rural places, far from the cities I love.
directed by Larry Peerce
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Cinefile
In earlier decades, Heston’s name would still be above the title, but you wouldn’t need to see the poster to know it. If some whacko with a rifle takes position behind the scoreboard of a crowded football stadium, Chuck’s the man who brings him in. But people were paranoid in 1976 and cocaine was a popular drug. So not only does the screenwriter make Heston a minor law enforcement official in a splintered cast of about two dozen, but the director becomes so obsessed with the chaos a panic fifty-thousand strong might inspire that not one potential sniper victim is spared. When the shooting starts, it doesn’t stop. The mood is desolate and the devastation startling; people turn on each other like zombies. I’m not a survivalist, so the movie doesn’t exploit my fears, but I’m glad that survivalists tend to live in rural places, far from the cities I love.
posted by NPK at 3:13 PM
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