The Towering Inferno

Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 17, 1974

8.0	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Ratings

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Squirrel73Mar 31, 2020

The Towering Inferno is is BEST Disaster movie ever made. Excellent Special effects, Great Performances, and one the of greatest casts of all time. It’s just a great movie.

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amheretojudgeAug 28, 2018

adequacy outweighs potential..

The Towering Inferno The Towering Inferno is a character driven feature about unity and fascism brewing at a point of annihilation. Huge set pieces and detailed production design welcomes the audience in, inadequacy outweighs potential..

The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno is a character driven feature about unity and fascism brewing at a point of annihilation. Huge set pieces and detailed production design welcomes the audience in, in its luxuriously behemoth paragon that falls like domino. It's such metaphorical tone, that is layered enough to push the audience to see past its typical genre, but unfortunately the makers fails to pull it off as anticipated. The visual effects are impressive and convincing with sharp sound effects that offers the apt experience as was anticipated. And although is short on background score, the editing is on mark with an amazing cinematography. Few scenes are shot beautifully but with the help of art designing and visual effects, some graphic scenes might make you cringe. But it's this boldness (whether then it be McQueen's stunts or a character's slick move or suggestions to survive the nature) that helps makers in keeping the viewers tangled on its world or apparently a building in here. Even though the narration is elaborative and not overstretched, the runtime of around 175 minutes, may allow the audience to wander off the feature. The makers have an amazing window where it can depict the nature of each character without any sweetening or filtering, since its critical crisis can and does aviate its raw material right on to the face of the viewers; what a delight. Newman's smart and precise portrayal with McQueen's bravado and Holden's leadership quality, the performance objective is more than safe. Guillermin's execution may not be extraordinary but is sufficient enough to offer a palpable surrounding to the script. Impactful screenplay and jaw dropping visuals are the only high points of the feature. The Towering Inferno's priority for adequacy outweighs potential on terms of its journey and not the destination.… Expand

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Stephenj2010May 23, 2020

The Towering Inferno is a sweet and the greatest disaster movie, and it's not too bad!

8.9/10 The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie about a 138 feet skyscraper at the night, got in a huge trouble and causes a night of blazingThe Towering Inferno is a sweet and the greatest disaster movie, and it's not too bad!

8.9/10 The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie about a 138 feet skyscraper at the night, got in a huge trouble and causes a night of blazing suspense, and it very fun! Very, very, VERY fun to see this movie, and it's an exciting disaster movie that everyone would see this, and it's full of scary, fun, and suspenseful scenes throughout the movie! Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were amazing cast in the blazing movie of all time! :)

Not only that, but the movie has lots of amazing effects for the fire, and making the effects looks scary as it really is, the sets looking terrific, and it has likable characters, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman as well!

The soundtrack that was performed by John Williams is amazing, and he did amazing job with this movie.

The skyscraper named The Glass Tower, the tallest building than the original World Trade Center in the movie, is well done designed, almost looked as realistic as a fictional skyscraper was.

This is the several times that Irwin Allen has shown to have good skills as a producer, and his concept of the movie since he produces ''The Poseidon Adventure'' in 1972.

The greatest disaster movie to date in 1974 to this day! :)… Expand

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