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02/09/06
Midnight Express (1978)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:19
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to... [More]
Reviews for Midnight Express
Top Criticharrowing and involving
05/13/05
a brutal and brutalizing film whose effects have diminished little in the decades since its controversial theatrical release in the late 1970s
07/22/09
Strong stuff indeed...swells proportional sight and sound subjectively to convey Hayes' nightmarish experience but also hypes up a story that probably doesn't need the help. [Blu-ray]
07/21/09
A solid prison film that feels so real that if you heard a voiceover you'd swear it was a documentary.
07/19/09
Horrific scenes of prison brutality and powerful acting by Brad Davis as the American Billy Hayes help make up for the shortcomings in Alan Parker's sensationalistic tale and Oliver Stone's factual inaccuracies and narrow stereotyping of the Turks.
03/26/09
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10/18/08
Top CriticNo review available.
02/21/08
Director Alan Parker's right. His 1978 riveting prison drama still holds up.
02/08/08
Searing and unforgettable. A harrowing descent into a real-life hell that's so relentlessly intense it will leave you feeling drained.
10/05/05
All modern-day jail flicks owe it a debt.
08/07/05
Grim, nightmarish, unforgettabe prison tale
10/19/04
No review available.
04/09/04
Suffers from the kind of excess -- and hyperbole -- writer Oliver Stone brought to his own films as director.
03/10/04
Intense, but somewhat false 'true' story distinguised by Parker's direction.
01/29/04
Alan Parker's Midnight Express works like a hammer lock on the viewer's mind.
01/24/04
A genuinely disturbing prison film in the tradition of PAPILLON
03/20/03
Anyone thinking of smuggling drugs into a foreign country should watch this first.
02/04/03
No review available.
12/30/02
No review available.
07/27/02
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