Click here to copy URL

Black Sunday

1977

John Frankenheimer

Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver ...

6.2

969

Action. Mystery An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.

	Author	Review
Canada	The Globe and Mail	"John Frankenheimer does an excellent job of maintaining tension in an implausible situation in Black Sunday. Good performance by Bruce Dern"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"'Black Sunday' benefits from its technical skill, drawn-out suspense and developed characterizations, though the film could have been even more effectively tight with a shorter running time."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"If the cast of Black Sunday were not so good, and if Mr. Frankenheimer were a less able director, the movie would be unendurably boring."	NEU
United States	Jack Kroll Newsweek	"The best thing about Black Sunday is its pulsating rhythm of suspense and the glittering texture of details it assembles as it drives its way toward its climax"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"'Black Sunday' takes such a plodding literal-minded approach with an extravagant thriller premise that we have more than enough time to watch the gears working and all too often jamming"	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"An intelligent and meticulous depiction of an act of outlandish terrorism – the planned slaughter of the Super Bowl stadium audience."	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.