Released as such in the great era of disaster movies, "TWO MINUTE WARNING" (One Minute Warning) by LARRY PEARCE (1976) more akin to the thriller film that cata ... gleefully eyeing a masterpiece of the genre, "TARGETS" (Target) 1967 Peter Bogdanovich with Boris Karloff, this is a rather uneven work, which lacks real suspense, the idea was still strong interesting to know, instead of Target, we show a killer whom we know nothing, none of his motives, and especially we are not always shown that you can not see his face close (only a close eye on casual).
This assumption makes the tragic aspect of the film more salient, because it allows the viewer to identify with potential victims ...
As often in this kind of production, 2 good third of the film are used to show us the main characters of the story (which, as in the casting of disaster movies, the actors are known): starting with a screen legend Hollywood's golden age, WALTER PIDGEON, alas confined only to a representational role, namely an old pickpocket without a single line of dialogue, Jack Klugman in the scheming rascal king, Martin Balsam in good cop a bit overwhelmed, GENA ROWLANDS and DAVID JANSSEN couple spectator occupying time and space to bicker, the real surprise casting of John Cassavetes is a captain of the elite forces of intervention, more accustomed to intimate films than films of funk, broken other star in the exercise, CHARLTON HESTON in cop with integrity, and whose presence in it only worth a look, because his character denounces the end of the movie drifts a population heavily armed criminal, while we know the inquisitive eye of Michael Moore its relation to the matter of U.S. law to possess a weapon, the least we can say is it was a lot of humor, friend ... CHARLTON
But the main character in the film is undoubtedly the LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM, huge stadium where the plot is played and where this killer is hiding in the crowd ...
Me mâterait well a lil Rican soccer game today, like ....
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