The Brits do a disaster film. So it is a little more tasteful, but also boring. The sequences where there are actually bombs being diffused are pretty cool, though. Every English actor you ever heard of is in this – including a young and dark haired Ian Holm. A question, though – was Omar Sharif always an awful actor, or did I slowly become one? I rented this because it got a lot of praise from Steven Soderbergh in his book Getting Away With It. That musta been the Soderbergh of The Good German talkin’…
I have hazy memories of seeing this as a kid and being totally thrilled by it. Isn’t there a scene where a guy goes overboard and they’re like, sorry, we can’t turn this thing around? Freaked the hell out of me.
Yes, that’s the one.