Tuesday, September 04, 2012

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Gigantic skyscraper catches fire on the night of its inauguration due to its builders having used cheap material in it. The architect, at first with the building's personnel and later with the firemen, tries to help avoid a complete tragedy.

Second viewing. Very well-made and entertaining disaster-movie. This genre's plot conventions are mostly true to human nature, as can be observed in the real-life economic cataclisms that recently shook, and are still shaking, several countries of the world, and of which this film is a metaphor.

Rating: 52 (up from 36)

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