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 Critic54 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 wasted opportunity
01/08/05
It's a noble effort, but aficionados and the mildly interested are recommended to seek out VH-1's excellent Studio 54 documentary in lieu of this shallow morality play.
01/01/00
Mecca of cool turns out lukewarm.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Top Critic54 is barebones storytelling, almost totally devoid of compelling conflict on any level.
01/01/00
54 can't make up its mind whether it's debunking, revering or giggling at the era of glitter balls and gold-painted faces.
01/01/00
Every conversation seems punctuated with awkward silences and dull stares.
10/15/02
...an exact and fluent mental picture of the legendary studio 54...
01/01/00
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
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
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
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03/14/05
To borrow a putdown from a past vice presidential debate, we've all seen John Travolta, and Ryan Phillippe, you are no John Travolta. Nor for that matter are you Mark Wahlberg.
01/01/00
Except for Myers, and for many he will make the movie worth watching. He's absolutely shagadelic and completely unexpected. This should have been his movie.
01/01/00
Don't shell out your cash for this dud!
01/01/00
Top CriticLet me pause for a minute to think of a more boring subject for a movie ... Sorry. I give up.
07/23/07
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