Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

pietclausen A movie based on a good book does not necessarily make a good movie. When too much emphasis is placed on talking heads it becomes very boring visually and drawn out. This may have been acceptable in 1977, but does not work in 2017. Only the last hour brings excitement and tension, but in an almost two and a half hour movie, it happens too late.The whole story could have been told in about 100 minutes to make a gripping drama/thriller, when I would have given it a score of 7.

bkoganbing For years down to this day since seeing Black Sunday in the theater I've always watched major sporting events with this film in mind. That's the kind of thoughts that director John Frankenheimer plants in your mind with a viewing of Black Sunday.Black September the Palestinian terrorist organization of the day and the ones responsible for the slaughter of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich have something special in mind for America at one of our major sporting events. Israeli intelligence Mosad learns of it and the guy who learned of it is dispatched to the USA to stop it.Robert Shaw is the agent that is sent and he gives a carefully controlled performance of an Israeli assassin. The kind you send out after Arab assassins. Shaw is quiet and deadly and most effective in his acting.The other side is represented by Marthe Keller and note that she's not a traditional Moslem woman in her style of living. Nonetheless both she and Shaw have suffered immense personal tragedies which has brought them to their respective positions. Keller has found a former Navy Pilot who was a Vietnam POW Bruce Dern who is more than slightly unhinged. After a court-martial he's bitter against the USA and wants to commit an atrocity and he has a very specific atrocity in mind. All three of the leads acquit themselves well in their roles. But the real star is the special effects and an ending that for the last half hour will have you on the edge of your seats.I predict your reaction to Black Sunday will be the same as mine. You will never watch a major sporting event without this film in the back of your mind.

Dark Jedi I read the book that the movie is based on a long time ago back in the times when books by definition where made out of paper. I honestly do not remember much from the book except that I thought it was a good enough book. I also generally like Robert Shaw as an actor so when I saw that this movie was given on Paramount Channel I decided to record it for a rainy day. Well, yesterday was not a rainy day but there was not really anything else on that I felt like watching so I put this one on.It is a fairly good movie. At least up until the end. It is a pretty much standard political thriller with the rather common basic story of a couple of terrorists planning a terrorist strike on US soil and a couple of good guys trying to stop them. Of course one of the good guys are a foreign operative with less restrained ideas about how to achieve the desired outcome. There is nothing hugely inventive about the story, although I guess it might have felt a bit more fresh in 1977 when the movie was produced, but it is mostly well implemented.I do like that the movie, as is all to often the case, does not try to "explain" the terrorists and justify their actions, at least not too much. Compared to many movie of this type (and that is why I generally do not like these movies) this one is rather neutral in terms of political sides. There are a few outbursts of "why" but in general the movie focuses on the preparations and the chase.As I wrote, in general the movie is well implemented. The acting of both Robert Shaw and Marthe Keller, who plays the female terrorist, is not at all bad. Maybe not Oscars material but definitely not bad and, as I also wrote before, I do like Robert Shaw. For most of the movie we get to follow the preparations of the terrorists and the work of the good guys trying to unravel the plot and stop it. A few sporadic outbursts of action breaks the otherwise not so fast pace of the movie. Classical thriller material and quite enjoyable to watch.Unfortunately by the time we come to the ending it appears like the classical Hollywood I-do-not-have-clue-but-lets-throw-in-some-action people took over and it drags down an otherwise fairly well-made movie. Once the plan is uncovered the movie turns into just another let's-spot-the-faults Hollywood B-movie. For instance, once it is clear that there is a severe threat, why is the stadium not evacuated? At least they should have gotten the president out. Given the situation why did they not have an officer or agent on the blimp in the first place? Why did Kobakov have to run all over the stadium to talk to the TV-guys, there should have been someone with communication in their hut already? And then we have the blimp chase. There was a potential threat to the president and all they could muster was a single police chopper that got shot down and another chopper that they hijacked? Kobakov laying on the blimp fumbling to get hold of the hook was also dragged out in absurdum.As I wrote I do not remember much details from the book but this ending sure dragged down the movie for me. It is at least a star off for the ending. Still, most of the movie was enjoyable.

Petri Pelkonen Michael Lander, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, plans a bomb attack to a NFL game with Dahlia Iyad.She's an operative of Palestinian terrorist group Black September.85000 spectators + president Jimmy Carter would be at risk of losing their lives.Israeli David Kabakov does everything he can to prevent the act from happening.Black Sunday (1977) is directed by John Frankenheimer and it's based on a novel by Thomas Harris.Ernest Lehman was among those writing the screenplay.Robert Shaw does excellent job as Kabakov.Bruce Dern is excellent as Lander.Dahlia is played by Marthe Keller, and she's very good.Fritz Weaver is superb as FBI Agent Sam Corley.Steven Keats is terrific as Moshevsky.Great job by Bekim Fehmiu, who plays Fasil.Michadel V. Gazzo is fantastic as Muzi.William Daniels does marvelous work as Pugh.Walter Gotell is magnificent as Colonel Riat.Also Clyde Kusatsu's portrayal of Freighter Captain is very good.Terry Bradshaw appears as himself.The movie has many incredible scenes.The speed boat chase is great for those who are hungry for action.The last minutes of this film are most intense.The Goodyear Blimp with a bomb is heading towards the Super Bowl stadium.Most entertaining thriller by Frankenheimer.