Movie Reviews for Miracle Mile

Miracle Mile

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Movie Reviews of Miracle Mile

Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Though the film is marred by the fact that the two leads (especially Mare Winningham) are not interesting or attractive enough for us to care about them, Miracle Mile manages to present several indelible images along with a sublime sense of looming doom; dated, but well worth watching.

Movie Review: Nifty Apocalypse
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a well made, if somewhat low budget film. Acting, dialogue and direction are all top-notch. The only flaw is that this is a full-screen, pan & scan release. I cannot find a wide screen version on DVD. Still, pan & scan is better than nothing. Well worth watching.

Movie Review: Is that all there is?
Summary: 3 Stars

What plays for the most part like a sufficiently zany second fiddle to Scorsese's "After Hours" also ends in the most unsatisfying way I've had the misfortune to sit through. This is supposed to be a love story at heart -- else our bespectacled hero Harry Washello, played by Anthony Edwards, closer to "Revenge of the Nerds" than "E.R.," would not kiss asphalt at 40 mph to rescue love interest Julie "I-lost-the-fight-with-my-lawnmower" Peters, played by Mare Winningham, as nuclear winter looms on the horizon. Yet when all is said and done, this is a defeatist romance at best. It's as if there were two scriptwriters butting heads on the set, one attempting something like a precursor to "Four-Eyed Monsters;" the other trying to make a statement about the threat of nuclear war and other meathead qualities of our modern-day Gomorrah. And the moral lesson trumps anything Cupid can cook up, leaving the doomed couple staring at one another uncomfortably in the film's rather unmiraculous final moments.

Still, the film merits three stars because Edwards really takes to portraying the 30-something, trombone-playing loner who as the movie starts finally meets the woman of his dreams, then becomes the recipient of a wrongly-dialed doomsday message. The supporting cast is up to the task as mayhem builds -- particularly Kurt Fuller in a gonzo scenestealer as the go-to guy when you need a helicopter in a jiffy. And somebody was definitely having fun crafting scenes like the witching-hour health club, in which our Armageddon-whistleblowing everyman Harry comes off as less stable than the coke-crazed, vaseline-slathered fitness freaks who populate the club. But then, sadly, "Mile" fumbles at the 1-yard line.

Movie Review: Doesn't stand up to the test of time that well...
Summary: 3 Stars

I love end of the world/nuclear war type movies, and this one is ambitious, but focuses mostly on the relationship between Anthony Edwards and his new love, and then on peoples reactions to the news that a nuclear war is coming. There is no footage of what happens after the war, which is usually my favorite part in these types of movies.
Many parts seemed kind of cheesy 15 years after this was made, but it is not a low budget movie and is worth a view if you really enjoy this genre, but overall I would say it is worth a rental, and is not really a memorable movie, at least not in 2004.