Two-Minute Warning (Widescreen)

Brand: Universal

Edition: DVD

Format: closed-captioned

PartNumber: Relay Time: 126 min

Release Date: 24-08-2004

Details: Amazon.caUnfairly dismissed by a number of critics, Two Minute Warning is an absorbing contemplation of the phenomenon of violence. Based on a novel by George LaFountaine, the story concerns an anonymous (and, until the very end, faceless) sniper perched above the scoreboard at a championship football game in Los Angeles. His lack of identity and unstated motivation is key to the film’s air of cautionary fable, in which the killer’s rage is one end of a continuum that includes many different kinds of violence among numerous characters: emotional withdrawal, police brutality, subtle racism, chips on various shoulders. Produced in 1976, the movie has all the hallmarks of the decade’s vogue for disaster flicks: an ensemble cast, a web of story lines, and a lot of p