Blow Out

This is one of the best thrillers ever!! I loved the story and John was very believable as the sound guy that recorded a murder. The direction by De Palma was exceptional as always and Nancy Allen did a great job... Full review

First film Brian De Palma made after Dressed to Kill. This film was very dissapointing in almost every area, Story was a little juvenile and attempted to jump around all over the place without success. Unfortunate as De Palma is one... Full review

Excellent Brian DePalma thriller starring a young John Travolta is first rate, filled with suspense and a pitch perfect tragic ending that Hitchcock would've appreciated. The final images of Travolta, sweating and shaky as he hears that familiar scream that will... Full review

I heard about this one a few years ago in a comment by Tarrintino about Travolta and just barley saw it today. This is director Brian De Palma at his best before he stooped to doing crap like Snake Eyes, and... Full review

NOW WE ARE ON BRIAN DE PALMA'S TERRITORY. A GOOD THRILLER, GOOD CAST, GREAT ACTING, AND AS IN DRESSED TO KILL, NANCY ALLEN SEEMS TO LIKE BEING INTO DEEP TROUBLE. AFTER SHE GOT RESCUED FROM A CAR THAT FELL INTO A... Full review

BLOW OUT deserves more attention than a lot of other thrillers from the '80s, partly because it's taut with suspense most of the time and owes a lot of its chill to JOHN LITHGOW's performance as a cold-blooded psychotic killer.... Full review

Jack Terri is a soundman for a B-movie studio. One night as he is out recording sounds for a film he sees an accident - a car swerves through a guard rail and into a river. Jack jumps in in... Full review

The two Johns played their parts well but Sally was semi-retared her voice was so damn annoying .This movies had a pretty good plot .... Full review

1st watched 10/03/2005 - 8 out of 10(Dir-Brian De Palma): Wonderfully written and directed story by Brian De Palma about a sound man who records an accident(we think) at a bridge while doing his job of recording sounds for a... Full review

Brian DePalma was at the height of his film career when he undertook the direction of "Blow Out". Some comments to this forum have compared it to other distinguished films like Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" and Michaelangelo Antonioni's "Blow... Full review

it sets up a thematic undercurrent that resonates throughout the film....And as with most conspiracy thrillers, Blow Out , ends with a monumentally bleak ending.....Sick of the limited stock sound effects....the other disbelieving characters and it's a refreshing and intelligent change..... ... Full Review

Blow Out' is fiercely intelligent, plausible....the sound effects for cheap horror movies, the kind with lots of blood and sex....'Blow Out' is as good a thriller as I have ever seen, a testament to Brian De Palma's distinctive vision, and one of his best films.....The forceful and dramatic score by Pino Donaggio....it respects its audience enough not to insult them.... ... Full Review

This espionage thriller goes out quietly, with a slow-motion dwindle into personal and political hell. De Palma underlines this disillusionment by setting the story up for a heroic conclusion in the traditional Hollywood mold. ... Full Review

But everything about the film is arty-farty, with its sparse dialogue and flaky characters... This reminds me: it was probably the first time that a glimpse of pubic hair was seen at the local Bijou, which maybe why these days the film and its pretensions are so easily blown away. ... Full Review

Blow Out" is a truly virtuoso thriller that is superbly made in all aspects, and includes many purely original and visually stunning moments, including one scene in which, as Travolta slowly replays the sound on the tape, he visualizes where all of the sounds came from. ... Full Review

Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare. ... Full Article

There are two ways to look at Raising Cain . One: Brian De Palma took such a pasting with The Bonfire of the Vanities that he retreated, licking his wounds, to the el cheapo Hitchcock riffs that made his name... ... Full Article

Plot John Travolta plays a sound-mixer who tapes what he believes may be a murder. Review "It's hardly The Conversation is it?" is generally the comment levelled at Brian De Palma's similarly-themed and vastly underrated thriller. ... Full Article

The cast of Private Practice came out last night for the American Cancer Society event to Blow Out Cancer, and while Kate Walsh and company gathered to raise money for that good cause, they also spilled secrets about season three. ... Full Article