A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
[aka Circus of Fear]
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
15 Minutes (2001)
A homicide detective and a fire marshall must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.
Awkwardly uneven thriller that only perfunctorily seems to deal with the more serious topic about crime and media relations, but rather stresses the action elements and violence and even seems to mix in some humour with little success.
Halliwell*: "An action thriller is combined with an angry satire on those who seek their 15 minutes of fame and the celebrity-worshipping media that encourages them; it doesn't cohere and the violence panders to the audience it condemns, but at least it is thought-provoking."
Maltin***: "Highly charged, in-your-face, sometimes over-the-top moviemaking with attitude to spare."
Nightmare in Wax (1969)
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
A disgraced former Presidential guard finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, he works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
The similarities to White House Down are amazing, and this action thriller is just as silly, but by far not as much fun.
Maltin**1/2: "Nonstop action is the order of the day in this disaster film...The story is far-fetched and some of the characters deeply stereotyped but Fuqua keeps it all moving along; if you don't care about credibility it's reasonably entertaining, mindless fun."
Malizia (1973)
A beautiful housekeeper becomes a romantic attraction to a widower and his three sons.
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