SummaryA crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
Directed By:Larry Peerce
Written By:George LaFountaine, Edward Hume
Two-Minute Warning
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Mixed or Average
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25% Positive
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In the highly suspenseful 1976 Two-Minute Warning, directed with terrific energy and control by Larry Peerce, a football game takes on a subtly symbolic aspect as the cops pursue a mad sniper on the loose in a packed football stadium. [05 Jun 1988, p.2]
70
An off-the-beaten-track story [based on the novel by George La Fountaine] of a football stadium crowd menaced by a sniper, combined with above-average plotting, acting and direction.
60
Peerce gives an unexpectedly sunny, picture-postcard feeling to a film that is rated R for violence. [22 Nov 1976, p.110]
50
Efficient enough as formula suspense, but it fails to confront the implications of its subject, preferring instead evasiveness and fast cynicism to pull it through.
30
The movie is a blank, in other words, until the end. And then, suddenly, a lot of people are killed very gorily; and there is a mass stampede, and the football crowd becomes a panicked, murderous mob. And even the panic lacks emotion. It has momentum—lots of feet stepping on faces—and viciousness. Nothing more.
25
It's a cheerfully unashamed exploitation of two of our great national preoccupations, pro football and guns.
20
This mess is no fun until the sniper starts shooting--at least that livens things up a bit.
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Aug 11, 2024
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Movie starts off slow and clunky, with dull subplots, but once SWAT arrives the film becomes gripping and intense, With brutal, in your face crowd panic stampede scenes with hundreds of extras, and bloody shocking violence, Charlton Heston and John Cassavettes command the screen as police captain and SWAT commander try to stop a sniper at championship football game, I like the attention to detail of SWAT tactics and methods,
Production Company:
- Universal Pictures
- Filmways Pictures
Release Date:Nov 12, 1976
Duration:1 h 55 m
Rating:R
Tagline:For some...too much time to wait. For the rest...too little time to run.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
