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 Mad City (DVD)
 Mad City (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 22 April, 2002 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / Mad City is an earnest effort at media criticism that's never convincing enough to stir a viewer's outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story. What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta's tragic performance and Hoffman's impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.comNewest Review: ... children) hostage. Things go from bad to worse for Sam when he accidentally shoots his fellow security guard. Max sees the ... more ... hostile events from the gent?s toilet and immediately contacts his novice camerawoman who is located outside the museum. Keen to boost his career Max sees the hostage situation as an exclusive and decides to broadcast events live from within the museum. Max?s hiding place and broadcast is soon discovered by Sam, which infuriates the hostage taker even further. Sam starts to wish he hadn?t been so rash and realises that Max is willing to help defuse the situation. Max obviously acts sympathetically, but is actually ...more |
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Mad City (DVD): This isnt a mad film! Give it a chance (952 words)
by - written on 10/05/02 (Very useful, 116 readings)
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Mad City was released in 1997 and received indifferent reviews. Here is my review of the film. Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) is a local TV reporter who has seen his career take a downward spiral over the last couple of years. Max used to work for the network but was relegated to the television minor leagues because he couldn?t control his temper on live TV. His boss, Lou Potts (Prosky) seems content with small news stories and doesn?t really have any desire to take on controversial stories likely to improve ratings. Lou gets nervous whenever Max shows ambition, so decides to calm him down by sending him down to the local museum to do a ?feel-good? interview. The ... Read the complete review
You'd be mad to miss it! (304 words)
by - written on 01/08/00 (7 readings)
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Unfairly ignored on it's cinema release, and admittedly a bit of a stacked deck, Costa-Gavras' amusing assault on the American media is ably performed and hilariously funny. John Travolta is Sam Bailey, a none-too bright museum guard laid off from his job, who returns to take some hostages and get his job back. Among the captives is Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a vaguely shabby journalist who sees the chance to get a bit of exposure by playing the story up. This is territory cinema has traversed before, most notably in Billy Wilder's acidic satire 'Ace in the Hole', where Kirk Douglas' attempts to spin out a mining accident result in ... Read the complete review
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