Neither a great night out nor a great night in.
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06/18/08
54 (1998)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:8
Rotten:54
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Poor plot development and slow pacing keep 54 from capturing the energy of it's legendary namesake.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This broadly drawn fable takes place at the height of legendary Studio 54's delirious heyday. A cast of attractive youngsters portrays fictionalized employees and clientele of the glitzy urban... [More]
Starring: Mike Myers, Ryan Phillippe, Neve Campbell, Salma Hayek
Director: Mark Christopher
Reviews for 54
Top CriticMyers exploits every vicious, self-hating line that comes his way.
01/26/06
Top CriticSanitised and dramatically inept retelling of the history of one of the great sleazy success (and failure) stories. Best head out to a nightclub instead.
01/01/00
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10/18/08
A more critical and resonant Hollywood movie about the glorious disco culture screams to be made.
06/18/08
Top CriticA shapeless homage to the glory that was Studio 54 in its decadent heyday...
06/18/08
Let me pause for a minute to think of a more boring subject for a movie ... Sorry. I give up.
07/23/07
Myers shining moment. Too bad nobody saw it.
06/08/07
Just as disappointing as Whit Stillman's Last Days of Disco, Marc Christopher's 54 suffers from a formulaic script that feels like a reworking of Saturday Night Fever and Boogie Nights, both superior and more entertaining pictures.
12/18/05
Top CriticThe writer seems helpless in finding a way to wrap up the story beyond the arrest of Rubell.
12/06/05
Top CriticA mish-mash of bad writing, poor acting (except Myers), amateur directing and mediocre production credits.
04/09/05
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03/14/05
... a wasted opportunity
01/08/05
The 1970s were great times, but most viewers could hardly come to that conclusion based on this film.
07/29/04
One can only hope "54" will hammer the final nail in disco's coffin. It's music that I don't want stayin' alive.
07/01/04
54 is mediocre on almost all counts: acting (with a couple of exceptions), writing, direction and cinematography are uniformly bland, inoffensive and completely unmemorable.
03/16/04
a nostalgic whitewash. With its sterling beat-heavy soundtrack and non-stop glitz, the movie captures the look and sound of its inspiration much more convincingly than it conjures up the Studio 54 atmosphere.
07/02/03
Qualifies as one of the more entertaining bad movies of the year.
05/20/03
I was hoping to be able to recommend 54 from a camp point of view, possibly the next Showgirls. But it's not. The fact is it's so uninvolving, it's not even interesting enough to be bad.
04/14/03
Every conversation seems punctuated with awkward silences and dull stares.
10/15/02
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