The party never gets started.
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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
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.
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A la mayoría de los personajes les falta un desarrollo más inteligente y apegado a la realidad
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This is so dull!
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A disappointingly dull film.
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54 can't make up its mind whether it's debunking, revering or giggling at the era of glitter balls and gold-painted faces.
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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.
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I don't get that lifestyle, but I was hoping that 54 would show me why so many people find that appealing. It was not to be.
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Somehow, some way, the supremely disappointing 54 has made the historically hip haven of hedonism... boring.
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54 is an entertaining and surprisingly serious look at the infamous New York discotheque, with a genuine nostalgia for the late '70s and early '80s, tempered by a healthy dose of jaundice – but without a sense of condescension or superiority.
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Silly and clumsily made.
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Here we have a nightclub where Mick Jagger danced with Truman Capote, and the drama of the film is two bare-chested hunks shouting 'You've changed, man!' while carrying tubs of dirty glasses.
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The movie is flat, logy, and amateurish -- a Scotch - tape- and - balsa - wood job.
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Little more than stock characters acting out a generic drama of sin and redemption against a lascivious backdrop that is far more interesting than the story it serves.
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The plotting and pacing are so relentlessly predictable that the film doesn't even work well as a sociology lesson.
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"54" starts out as an exploration of a culture based on the cultivation of surfaces, and winds up all surface itself.
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You see garbage bags filled with cash, a lot of avid cocaine snorting and fleeting glimpses of Warhol and Truman Capote, but it all feels ho-hum.
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Top CriticThe dialog is as dull as the costumes are flashy.
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Never achieves what it sets out to accomplish.
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