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 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
Top CriticMyers exploits every vicious, self-hating line that comes his way.
01/26/06
Top CriticDon't shell out your cash for this dud!
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Top CriticThe writer seems helpless in finding a way to wrap up the story beyond the arrest of Rubell.
12/06/05
Top CriticIt's all strobe lights and glitz, no substance. It's sort of like the musical era it covers.
01/01/00
It's a flat, clumsy piece of filmmaking.
12/19/01
Extremely watery and soap opera-ish...
01/01/00
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
...an exact and fluent mental picture of the legendary studio 54...
01/01/00
A bundle of missteps that will keep filmgoers off this dance floor.
01/01/00
The 1970s were great times, but most viewers could hardly come to that conclusion based on this film.
07/29/04
The new disco era film 54 is Fame on drugs, a low-grade Saturday Night Fever.
01/01/00
Whatever you do, don't waste your money on the superficial, cowardly 54
01/01/00
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 CriticA more critical and resonant Hollywood movie about the glorious disco culture screams to be made.
06/18/08
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03/14/05
Mr. Christopher's movie at times looks like a parody of the era, at other times like a celebration of a period haplessly gone by.
01/01/00
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10/18/08
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