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Although it is not consistently engaging enough to fully justify its towering runtime, The Towering Inferno is a blustery spectacle that executes its disaster premise with flair.
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The movie doesn't stick together in one's head; this thing is like some junky fairground show -- a chamber of horrors with skeletons that jump up. Jan 15, 2013 | Full Review…
The movie doesn't stick together in one's head; this thing is like some junky fairground show -- a chamber of horrors with skeletons that jump up.
Pauline Kael
Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people's troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action director. Feb 3, 2012 | Full Review…
Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people's troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action director.
Don Druker
The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made, a personal and professional triumph for producer Irwin Allen. Sep 22, 2008 | Full Review…
The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made, a personal and professional triumph for producer Irwin Allen.
Variety Staff
A starry cast share out roles that are less like characters than places in a lifeboat. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
A starry cast share out roles that are less like characters than places in a lifeboat.
Geoff Andrew
You may not come out of the theater with any important ideas about American architecture or enterprise, but you will have had a vivid, completely safe nightmare. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5
You may not come out of the theater with any important ideas about American architecture or enterprise, but you will have had a vivid, completely safe nightmare.
Vincent Canby
The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films.
Roger Ebert
Like Earthquake, the script here is barely competent. Dec 9, 2019 | Full Review…
Like Earthquake, the script here is barely competent.
Jacoba Atlas
An absolutely spectacular cast, and a top-notch technical team, are the pillars on which 'The Towering Inferno' is based, a film built with the precision of an architect. [Full Review in Spanish] Sep 4, 2019 | Full Review…
An absolutely spectacular cast, and a top-notch technical team, are the pillars on which 'The Towering Inferno' is based, a film built with the precision of an architect. [Full Review in Spanish]
Alberto Abuín
Despite the best efforts of most of those involved, the film never takes off as more than just a remarkable collection of glossy violence. Sep 11, 2014 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Despite the best efforts of most of those involved, the film never takes off as more than just a remarkable collection of glossy violence.
Tim Brayton
The result is everything a disaster movie should be, a combination of soap opera and the spectacle of destruction. Feb 3, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The result is everything a disaster movie should be, a combination of soap opera and the spectacle of destruction.
Ironically, there's now something almost comforting about the way the film sticks to formula, but the action is still authentically thrilling. Feb 3, 2012 | Full Review…
Ironically, there's now something almost comforting about the way the film sticks to formula, but the action is still authentically thrilling.
Film4 Staff
Featuring an all-star cast (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen), the movie delivers the goods of a well-crafted disaster flick, but strangely, it was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Mar 30, 2011 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Featuring an all-star cast (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen), the movie delivers the goods of a well-crafted disaster flick, but strangely, it was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Emanuel Levy
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