Two-Minute Warning
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Actor: Beau Bridges, Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Marilyn Hassett, Martin BalsamBrand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
Published: 2010-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2010-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Two-Minute Warning
Movie Review: This Movie 25 Years Ahead Of It's Time - Highly Recommend
Summary: 5 Stars
The Two Minute Warning was a movie that seemed to have been forgotten about by most people that saw it at the movie theater back in the 70's. America did not want to accept this movie like they did all the Rocky films because everyone likes happy endings. People even accepted the Godfather which was filmed 4 years prior to the Two Minute Warning. There were many violent killings in the Godfather but people accepted the movie and it is still selling to this day. I saw the Two Minute Warning at the theater when it was released. I later watched the same version I saw at the theater on HBO. I was 20 years old when I first saw this movie and it stuck out in my mind and it was a movie I never forgot about. Nobody wanted to really accept this movie back then because they felt it was violent. Others felt that it was far fetched and this could never happen in America. Well whether they didn't want to face it back then or even today this movie was the wake up call which was ignored clear back in 1976. This is our society today!!!! If this movie would have been made 2 years ago everyone would take note and be serious about it. I have read other peoples reviews about this movie and they feel that stadium security at the championship game would have grabbed this guy. If you pay attention to the time when this movie was made security back then was laxed and nobody ever dreamed that this was possible. It is this same feeling of taking for granted that this could never happen that led America to 9-11 and the sniper killings in the D.C. area a couple years ago. I would highly recommend anyone who thinks you are safe everyday of your life to WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!! I am not a violent person and I don't condone the violence in this movie. However if you watch this movie you'll see how any screen writer in Hollywood could pick up a copy of the USA TODAY in the last 2 or 3 years and write the script for the Two Minute Warning. THIS IS A MOVIE EVERYONE IN AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE AND TAKE SERIOUSLY. DON"T EVER TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT THIS MOVIE IS FAR FETCHED AND COULD NEVER HAPPEN. OPEN YOUR EYES. IT'S HAPPENING AROUND US EVERYDAY!!!!!!!
Summary of Two-Minute Warning
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.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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