This film may very well be a big disaster film, but more likely it's just a big disaster. The Airport series and even Earthquake were all better than this.
A stiffer performance from Steve McQueen or Paul Newman I've never seen. They could have had cardboard delivering the lines and it would have been better. The only person in the whole film who acted at all was William Holden. God bless him for trying.
The special effects weren't bad. In fact, they were just about the only thing in the whole movie worth seeing.
Towards the end I was cheering for people to die. Drop that one off the side of the building..please! Somehow I don't think that was what they had in mind.
As for the action sequences "directed by Irwin Allen".. there was not much action to them. They were dull, dry, boring.. words fail to describe.
Finally as the film wound a plodding path to the conclusion, I found myself laughing out loud at bits of ridiculous dialogue and even more ridiculous scripting. How they supposedly manage to put out the fire is absolutely preposterous.
I'm all for suspended belief, but the script of this film was every bit as bad as the performances elicited from some great actors. There's a reason nobody won an Oscar for acting in this one.
A stiffer performance from Steve McQueen or Paul Newman I've never seen. They could have had cardboard delivering the lines and it would have been better. The only person in the whole film who acted at all was William Holden. God bless him for trying.
The special effects weren't bad. In fact, they were just about the only thing in the whole movie worth seeing.
Towards the end I was cheering for people to die. Drop that one off the side of the building..please! Somehow I don't think that was what they had in mind.
As for the action sequences "directed by Irwin Allen".. there was not much action to them. They were dull, dry, boring.. words fail to describe.
Finally as the film wound a plodding path to the conclusion, I found myself laughing out loud at bits of ridiculous dialogue and even more ridiculous scripting. How they supposedly manage to put out the fire is absolutely preposterous.
I'm all for suspended belief, but the script of this film was every bit as bad as the performances elicited from some great actors. There's a reason nobody won an Oscar for acting in this one.
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