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- 1976
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 1976
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Summary A 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
- 1976
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 1976
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Two-Minute Warning
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Summary A 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
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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2 Reviews
38% Mixed
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3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
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]
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.
Peerce gives an unexpectedly sunny, picture-postcard feeling to a film that is rated R for violence. [22 Nov 1976, p.110]
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.
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.
It's a cheerfully unashamed exploitation of two of our great national preoccupations, pro football and guns.
This mess is no fun until the sniper starts shooting--at least that livens things up a bit.
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