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Movie Reviews of 54
Movie Review: An interesting drama, with strong supporting performances
Summary: 4 Stars
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!Movie Review: Depressingly entertaining, and you can't look away from the screen.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a movie to just let wash over you. Just take in that scene and realize that this was reality. I knew peoople just like this. I could only watch as they blew their time away on nothing of real importance, and blew their brains and cash away on white powder to put up their noses... all the time thinking that they were on the fast track to something, but really going nowhere. It was only losers who were outside the scene.
It's the death of elderly Dottie out on the dance floor that lets you know the party is really over. The lights are turned on to show her dead on the dance floor, blood streaming out of her nose, lying amid the piles of litter on the floor that moments before had passed for glittering streamers. The club's owner has the lights turned back off as Dottie's body is carried out, and the music begins anew. Moments later, the IRS arrives. When Steve Rubell is asked if he is "going to get out," he replies: "Where would I go?"
If there is anything really brilliant here, it's the riveting performance by the actor who seems to have captured the essence of Steve Rubell, Mike Myers.
For me, this is a movie I have to watch every year or so to remember the bad old days and how they only seemed to glitter in the dark. Some of us got out alive.
Movie Review: The Party Starts Again At Studio 54
Summary: 4 Stars
"54" stars Ryan Phillippe, Selma Hayak, Neve Campbell, and Mike Myers. The movie describes the high doses of everything in Studio 54. Though much information from real-life was eliminated, especially the second club owner, it still has many enjoyable scenes. Had they included those extra details, "54" likely would have been given a five stars. The high extremes of glitz, glamour, flamboyance, sex, music, and drugs are desplicted brilliantly. The stage set-up of Studio 54 gives the movie further joy, especially in the lights, the glitter, and the elaborate construction. Such scenery shines light to disco music. Mike Myers role as the club owner, Steve Rubell, is his best in his career. Sadly, he was highly underrated. The other actors are average, though most have performed better. "54" is a great movie for those looking to revisit the 1970's and/or the disco era. Many will be entertained. Those looking for a further disco experience should also watch "Saturday Night Fever".Movie Review: All That Glitters Is Gritty
Summary: 4 Stars
I grew up in the Seventies but the Studio 54 mentality kind of flew under my radar. Now if you're talking about another famed New York nightspot, CBGB, you're talking my language. Regardless, I found "54" eminently intriguing and watchable. The film is not so much a celebration of the nightlife but rues the decay that ended the party. Makes you wonder if the makers of the film were partisans or foes of the disco lifestyle. Ryan Phillippe is quite good as Shane, a working-class Jersey kid, who is seduced by the artifice of easy sex and drugs that 54 offered. The performance that is a real eye opener is Mike Myers as owner Steve Rubell. This is probably the best work Myers has ever done onscreen. His Rubell can best be described as a decadent ringmaster who uses hedonism to orchestrate his debauched circus. Studio 54 is a mere footnote in the culture but this is a good film.Movie Review: I WAS THERE
Summary: 4 Stars
Yup, I got into Studio 54 as an underage teenager just before Schrager and Rubell got busted. The direction and cinematography make this film a classic --- as close to being there as being chosen by doorman Mark Benecke out of a crowd a thousand deep. $15 cover charge in 1979! And you'd walk through the hall of mirrors like Ryan Phillippe, pass the coat check, and come upon that row of black doors, a gateway to the most fantastic party in your wildest dreams. I finally figured out one reason for the club's success -- with the undeclared cash income, the owners threw the most extravagant parties of all time, night after night. This film gives an inkling, an idea of the place, for history, though the real Studio 54 was neither as freakish or out of control as the film depicts. When you entered the place, you felt like you'd gone to heaven. After a while, it felt like home.