OK, it's not Shakespeare or 'Citizen Kane'. It isn't 'Towering Inferno' or 'Airport'. But back off on 'When Time Ran Out...' After all is said and done, it isn't such a bad little movie. It seems that Allen and company have the disaster movie genre down to shorthand and show it as the film seems to glide from cliché to cliché, almost as if it's saying 'heck with you all, I know what I am, I don't have to work hard to show it.' As most of the cast has done this before, they pull it all off with a flair and a let's just do it style, like the last day of school. It's proof that entertaining movies do not necessarily have to be 'good' movies.
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Airport 1975
(1974)
The Worst Airborne Disaster Movie EVER
2 June 2005
Simply, undeniably, the most hideous, unintentionally funny, practically unwatchable airborne disaster movie of all time--including the universally raked over the coals CONCORDE-AIRPORT '79 and AIRPORT '77. From perhaps the most ungainly 'credit' line I've seen ("Inspired by the movie AIRPORT, based on the novel...") to poor comic relief from Sid Caesar (who deserved better)and Jerry Stiller (who, like much of the audience, sleeps through the entire picture...you think I'm kidding?)to Karen Black, who seems to be trying to make overacting an art form, and Charlton Heston, who has made overacting an art form, I pity poor George Kennedy for wasting his time even trying. Forget this one.
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