Synopsis
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
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Cast
- Charlton HestonCapt. Peter Holly
- John CassavetesSgt. Chris Button
- Martin BalsamSam McKeever
- Beau BridgesMike Ramsay
- Marilyn HassettLucy
- David JanssenSteve
- Jack KlugmanStu Sandmann
- Gena RowlandsJanet
- Walter PidgeonThe Pickpocket
- Brock PetersPaul
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
In the highly suspenseful 1976 Two-Minute Warning, directed with terrific energy and control by Larry Peerce, a football game takes on a subtly symbolic aspect as the cops pursue a mad sniper on the loose in a packed football stadium. [05 Jun 1988, p.2] - 70
Variety
An off-the-beaten-track story [based on the novel by George La Fountaine] of a football stadium crowd menaced by a sniper, combined with above-average plotting, acting and direction. - 60
Time
Most of these matters cancel each other out, but there is just enough energy remaining to make Two-Minute Warning an amusing time waster. - 60
Newsweek
Peerce gives an unexpectedly sunny, picture-postcard feeling to a film that is rated R for violence. [22 Nov 1976, p.110] - 50
Time Out
Efficient enough as formula suspense, but it fails to confront the implications of its subject, preferring instead evasiveness and fast cynicism to pull it through. - 30
The New York Times
The movie is a blank, in other words, until the end. And then, suddenly, a lot of people are killed very gorily; and there is a mass stampede, and the football crowd becomes a panicked, murderous mob. And even the panic lacks emotion. It has momentum—lots of feet stepping on faces—and viciousness. Nothing more. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
It's a cheerfully unashamed exploitation of two of our great national preoccupations, pro football and guns. - 20
TV Guide Magazine
This mess is no fun until the sniper starts shooting--at least that livens things up a bit.
