The Towering Inferno

  • 1975


MOVIE IS unifying spectacular overwrought
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Positive Reviews 9
Average Rating 3.7/5
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3.8
The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid 1970s wave of disaster films. Rogerebert
3.0
Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other peoples troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action .. Chicago Reader
3.2
The flicks director, John Guillermin, was not nominated The only epic element of this schlock mass entertainment was its running time, 165 minutes! Emanuellevy
4.0
Much more than a way to pass a rainy bank holiday afternoon, this is rocking good superleague disaster adventure... Empire
4.0
Some directors dont need a unifying story, but Brooks has always got lost without one. New Yorker
3.8
At any rate, The Towering Inferno remains genuinely spectacular and exciting with its world class special effects and stunts. Groucho Reviews
3.8
The result is everything a disaster movie should be, a combination of soap opera and the spectacle of destruction. Movies Tv Guide
3.5
This one is overwrought and silly in its personal drama, but the visual spectacle is first rate. Ny Times
4.0
But for all its spectacle and pyrotechnical magic, its the actors and the characters that make the Inferno one of the (very few) greats of the disaste .. Dvd Talk



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