Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 18, 2017 16:23:21 GMT
I have to admit I really didn't care for the 70s disaster genre, but I did find some enjoyment out of Two-Minute Warning. This is the one about a homicidal sniper at a championship football game, and a SWAT team's efforts to try and stop him.
There is an array of interesting side-stories of people who will be shot by sniper, or at least be somehow affected by the shootings. There's a gambling addict who is heavily in debt with the mob, an unemployed man with his wife and kids, a bickering common-law couple, an elderly pickpocket thief, and so on. There is some genuine suspense as the SWAT team carefully tries to nab the sniper without causing a disaster. Unfortunately their efforts go south, and disaster ensues as the wounded sniper shoots his high-powered rifle randomly into the crowd. The crowd flees the stadium in terror; this sequence is really well staged and nail-bitingly tense.
Two-Minute Warning did pretty good business at the box office, but was torn apart by the critics. A true product of its time.
There is an array of interesting side-stories of people who will be shot by sniper, or at least be somehow affected by the shootings. There's a gambling addict who is heavily in debt with the mob, an unemployed man with his wife and kids, a bickering common-law couple, an elderly pickpocket thief, and so on. There is some genuine suspense as the SWAT team carefully tries to nab the sniper without causing a disaster. Unfortunately their efforts go south, and disaster ensues as the wounded sniper shoots his high-powered rifle randomly into the crowd. The crowd flees the stadium in terror; this sequence is really well staged and nail-bitingly tense.
Two-Minute Warning did pretty good business at the box office, but was torn apart by the critics. A true product of its time.
