Blow Out
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Movie Reviews of Blow Out
Movie Review: NANCY ALLEN STEALS "BLOW OUT"
Summary: 5 Stars
Nancy Allen (in particular) and John Travolta explode on the screen in Brian De Palma's under-rated 1981 political thriller, "Blow Out". The direction and photography mixed with the tense and windy script make Blow Out a keeper for any fan of thrillers. The supporting cast of NYPD Blue's Dennis Franz and Third Rock's John Lithgow add the extra spark needed to make this film a contemporary classic. Travolta and Allen have never been better!
Movie Review: Everybody buy it
Summary: 5 Stars
The reviews below do a fine job of summing up the film and it's virtues;I just want to say a few words about the new DVD version. The good: boy, it looks and sounds great, and the letterboxing (after 20 years of tape versions)is a godsend. The not-so-good: no extras except a trailer. Laurent Bozereau (De Palma fanatic and person responsible for all the great extras on the simultaneously released "Dressed to Kill" and "Carrie" DVDs) says it's because MGM had already pressed it before he ever came on the scene. He says if the disc is a big sales success there'll probably be a rerelease with more stuff somewhere down the line. So c'mon...it's a great movie, the price is right.Movie Review: Arguably DePalma's 2nd Best Film (next to The Untouchables)
Summary: 5 Stars
Blow Out is a wonderful "Hitchcockian thriller" which centers on John Travolta as a C-Grade Horror Film Sound Designer who records the sound of an accident, which he is convinced was actually murder. Travolta gives a nicely understated performance, and his acting is contrasted by John Lithgow's wonderfully broad portrayal of an overly-zealous assassin. Get it for the two lead male performances, the nicely paced suspense, and for DePalma's superb film technique and excellent exploration of the power of SOUND + image.Movie Review: What a Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic film, one of the most underrated of all time. mesmerisingMovie Review: The triteness of the subject does not resist time
Summary: 3 Stars
This Brian de Palma film is essential in our western cinema. It picks the theme so marvelously exploited by Hitchcock of the voyeur who sees a crime (Room with a view), a murder being committed. But of course he has to develop the theme. Here the voyeur is a sound technician of the cinema industry who one nights sees, hears and records a presidential candidate being assassinated in the shape of a car accident, at the same time as a photographer was filming the same scene for some political and of course immoral and even criminal but politically and professionally correct project. It is when a serial killer of some kind gets into the picture and starts satisfying his desire to kill women, women of a certain type, at the same time as he cleans up the plate of the conspirators and plotters for the political assassination never to come out in the open. He destroys evidence. He tampers with state evidence. He eliminates witnesses and along with them a few more just for his personal fun. The film does not show any real deep meaning that has not been dealt with and developed over and over in the cinema. Politics are rotten. Nothing new under the sun. Politicians are sexual perverts. Nothing new under the sun. Police, media, simple people, everyone are only interested in non-disturbing, non-disquieting facts, even if they are absolutely false. The only positive point of this film, maybe even a new element, is the fact that an essential popular parade is totally disturbed by the main character running after the criminal in order to prevent his killing the direct witness of the murder. And yet the parade goes on as if nothing was happening. When society is celebrating its belly-button nothing can divert it from contemplating that belly button. And that is the power of criminals who use this narcissistic fascination to commit and cover their crimes. Don't worry they are not the only ones. In fact politicians are good too at doing that and what's more they can decide when and where the celebrations can take place to cover up their shortcomings, mistakes or even crimes.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines