Of all De Palma's movies, Blow Out is the one I most like to see over and over.
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10/06/04
Blow Out (1981)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:32
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: With a story inspired by Antonioni's Blow Up and a style informed by the high-gloss suspense of Hitchcock, DePalma's Blow Out is raw, politically informed, and littered with film references.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save the female passenger... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Director: Brian De Palma
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Reviews for Blow Out
Blow Out is the work of a high-spirited, irrepressible director who takes the effects movies can produce far more seriously than he takes the characters they seem to be about.
08/30/04
Top CriticA forgotten gem.
03/27/09
A movie which continues [De Palma] practice of making cross-references to other movies, other directors, and actual historical events, and which nevertheless is his best and most original work.
10/23/04
Top CriticUnderrated by just about everyone except Quentin Tarantino.
01/01/00
Brian De Palma’s movies are a stunningly uneven lot, but that might just be because he takes as many risks as he does.
03/05/02
It’s a great movie.
05/28/08
Top CriticOne of De Palma's best films.
09/10/02
In the amazingly hyperbolic finale, DePalma conflates patriotism, dirty tricks, violence against women, and slasher movies into a single sick joke.
08/20/09
...Blow Out is one of Brian DePalma's best films.
09/26/02
A triumph of both style and substance.
01/01/00
One of Brian De Palma's best pictures.
01/06/02
This 1981 release is one of Brian De Palma's more interesting and better-made thrillers, though it's even more abjectly derivative than his Hitchcock imitations.
03/27/09
Top CriticBlow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare.
08/26/06
It's an effective film mostly because it has a sense of humor and Travolta is convincing as the unlikely hero fighting against political corruption.
01/01/00
With attractive leads and a stylish flair for suspense, De Palma misses sustaining involvement by his distracting allusions to prior films.
03/26/09
Top CriticMuch less successful than it could and should have been.
08/28/01
There are some neat performances, particularly Travolta's convincing bid to be taken seriously after years of being dismissed as frivolous beefcake.
03/27/09
Where Antonioni's images made you think, De Palma's merely make you blink, and the baroque plot confuses as often as it frightens.
06/24/06
An homage to Blow Up that far outstrips the original in emotional immediacy, political sophistication, and visual style.
03/27/09
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