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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783230412
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783230419
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 7208
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 12, 1976
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Product Description:
A nightmare of fear and panic unfolds as a lone gunman sets his sights on a sell-out crowd at a championship football game. Bonus features: theatrical trailer featurette talent bios production notes and web links. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/24/2004 Starring: Charlton Heston John Cassavetes Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Larry Peerce
Amazon.com:
Unfairly dismissed by a number of critics, Two Minute Warning is an absorbing contemplation of the phenomenon of violence. Based on a novel by George LaFountaine, the story concerns an anonymous (and, until the very end, faceless) sniper perched above the scoreboard at a championship football game in Los Angeles. His lack of identity and unstated motivation is key to the film's air of cautionary fable, in which the killer's rage is one end of a continuum that includes many different kinds of violence among numerous characters: emotional withdrawal, police brutality, subtle racism, chips on various shoulders. Produced in 1976, the movie has all the hallmarks of the decade's vogue for disaster flicks: an ensemble cast, a web of story lines, and a lot of people contained in one place where something awful happens. But it is also something more: a successful exercise in plastic storytelling, a clever interweaving of a dozen discrete subplots with a mix of documentary and original action footage. The explosiveness of the football game itself becomes a refrain of ritualized mayhem in director Larry Peerce's patchwork film, but without beating us over the head with its metaphorical obviousness. Two Minute Warning may not be a great or classic work, but it is far more than the sum of its many parts and does leave a lasting impression. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: -
Although "Two-Minute Warning" is still an entertaining movie about a "situation" developing, when a madman prepares to shoot people in a stadium, the movie has some holes in it.
I won't spend too many words about its transfer on DVD, which is standard, but could have been taken better care of.
The holes I mentioned before, are mainly referred to the characters involved in this movie.
Except for some very general hints on who they all are, there is practically ... Read More
Rating:  -
Dont watch this movie looking for any deep meanings about why people act the way they do. This is an action adventure film that they used to call disaster movies in the 70's. Its fun from beginning to end ! Its a movie where you pop a bucket of popcorn , eat a candy bar ,drink a soda and loose yourself for a couple of hours! Enjoy! I did !
Rating:  -
Based on a scan of some reviews here, they might subtitle this movie Lazarus!, or Phoenix!, since it has apparently been raised from the dead on video shelves.
This movie has been largely forgotten and seldom appears on the movie channels precisely because it is and was always seen as a shambles. Footage was borrowed from other films to fill out the production, people wanted their names taken off the picture, it suffered more than one theatrical "final cut," and when it finally was ... Read More
Rating: -
I actually saw this movie at the theater in 1976. I thought it was an OK movie. It's about a lone sniper perched up in a tower shooting at anyone and everyone at a football game with 91,000 spectatators. Until now I never got to see the original again except for the edited and new scenes added, TV version because the original was not available for sale or rent. The scenes where some of the SWAT men get shot in the head is about the most realistic I've ever seen. I won't get into the gore of that ... Read More
Rating:  -
Filmed in 1976, at the closing of the 70s affection for disaster films, TWO MINUTE WARNING never achieves the goal of any good disaster flick: sure you need your big stars in peril, and a tense and involving script. This movie unfortunately falls short in the script department: we never know who the sniper is or why he's doing what he's doing; why does he wait so long to start shooting, and why is Charlton Heston acting like he has a batch of hemorrhoids? The pacing is too tedious and by the time ... Read More
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