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Movie Reviews of 54
Movie Review: 54 - INTERESTING; HOWEVER, I WAS HOPING FOR MORE.
Summary: 4 Stars
All in all, I think this is a good movie. If you were old enough to know about Studio 54, then probably, you wanted to see the club for yourself...especially if you were into disco. I can't believe I was in New York several times when 54 was going strong, and I didn't try to watch the crowds from a distance. My friends were afraid to go out at night. Geez!Movie Review: AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE...
Summary: 4 Stars
...MIKE MYERS IN 54!! MIKE MYERS IS THE REASON TO SEE 54. THE REST OF THE CAST ARE FINE. BUT MYERS STEALS EVERY SCENE HE'S IN WITH EASE. AN OVER ALL GOOD MOVIE, WITH AN ATTRACTIVE CAST THAT ALSO INCLUDES RYAN PHILLIPPE, SALMA HAYEK AND NEVE CAMPBELL.Movie Review: dancing dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is my favorite of ryan. He is one of the hottest actors.Movie Review: Captures look but not spirit of 70s disco legend
Summary: 3 Stars
In the 1970s, a young man named Steve Rubell opened a dance club in New York City called Studio 54. It became the hottest, most fashionable and most notorious nightclub in the world. It was frequented by famous people who were legends in their day, such as Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Andy Warhol, Princess Grace of Monaco, Liza Minnelli and The Rolling Stones. As for the rest of the customers, admission was granted by Rubell and his doormen not based on how long you had wait in line, but on how beautiful you were. Super models, wall street executives, hookers and hustlers all mingled with the rich and famous. Studio 54 stood as the cathedral of the Me Generation, and many people waited eagerly to see it crumble and fall. 54 tries hard to replicate life in and around the ultimate disco. The tale is told by narrator Shane [Ryan Phillippe], a blonde young Adonis from across the river in Jersey. Shane, who's a sheltered dreamer, manages to get a job as a busboy at the club. The allure, the glamour and the attitude there are his vision of Heaven, although from our vantage point, it often look like Hell.
There is not much a story. The film paints portraits of some of the customers and employees instead. Mike Myers, playing Steve Rubell, gives a powerful, Oscar caliber performance. His interpretation of this mad Emperor of Dance manages to make Rubell as much of a victim of his generation's excess as a perpetrator.
While the film is full of drugs, sex [of all kinds] and rock and roll, it is strangely timid. By pulling their punches, the film's makers never grab the audience. It's as though they were still embarrassed by the excesses of the times. Compared to 1997's boisterous Boogie Nights, it's tame stuff.
54 encounters a problem that has plagued many movies. Shane and his new friends who work at the club may be beautiful, but they are so relentlessly self-centered that, in the end, we don't much care where they wind up. It takes a master of the medium to make us feel for characters who take and never give. Only Rubell elicits any sympathy, but the picture does not center on him, as perhaps it should have.
The movie does manages to show the high energy of Studio 54. The music, dancing and lighting are fairly faithfully reproduced. The crowds are fun to look at. Rubell's descent into drug-induced madness is similar to the articles I have read about him.
54 is in the pop culture class and entertains us a sleek yet trashy way. If you want to see the late 70s Manhattan scene portrayed with style and substance, check out 1997's The Last Days of Disco.
Movie Review: Down At 54
Summary: 3 Stars
54 is about the halcyon days of the famed New York City night club, Studio 54. The film mixes real life characters with fictional one. Ryan Phillipe is a young kid from New Jersey who dreams of the big time across the river. He and two of his pals try to get into 54, but only he is admitted. Once inside, he is taken back by the scene. The loose sex, lights, drugs and the pounding disco beats are exactly what he is looking for in life. He eventually gets a job as a bar back and befriends fellow bar back Breckin Meyer and his wife, Selma Hayek, who works in the coat room. Ms. Hayek has dreams of a singing career. 54 isn't just a job for these people, it's a way of life. Neve Campbell shows up as a soap star who Mr. Phillipe gets somewhat involved with. The young stars are all fairly likable, but Mike Myers, who appears as 54's co-founder, the late Steve Ruebell, shines above them all. Mr. Myers chews up scenery as the eccentric Ruebell and the film is worth watching for his performance alone. The movie has a great soundtrack, looks authentic and has a fine cast, but the paper thin and mindless plot is impossible to get past. The movie has alot of potential, but unfortunately falls short.