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Mad City DVD Action & Adventure (2002) John Travolta Quality Guaranteed

Mad City is an earnest effort at media criticism that’s never convincing enough to stir a viewer’s outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story.
What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta’s tragic performance and Hoffman’s impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos.

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Mad City is an earnest effort at media criticism that’s never convincing enough to stir a viewer’s outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story.
What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta’s tragic performance and Hoffman’s impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos.

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