Blow Out

Pros: Travolta, De Palma's periodic flashes of visual brilliance
Cons: Travolta (in a way), the other actors, it hasn't the gravitas of The Conversation

In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed "The Conversation", a moody thriller about a world-renowned surveillance expert, who, through piecing together his accumulated evidence, suspects the couple he has been spying on are about to be murdered. ...

Pros: Several superb sequences, Travolta's performance, uncompromising ending.
Cons: Nancy Allen's annoying performance and distracting logic loopholes

Does Brian De Palma make derivative films? Is the Pope Catholic?

Brian De Palma loves to communicate with camera movement and visuals. He has been influenced by and borrows the very best ideas he can find . De Palma is also a pretty honest...

Pros: suybject matter
Cons: Nancy Allen, slow pacing

"Blow Out" should have been right up my alley-a suspense film revolving around a sound technician, and incorporating all aspects of the importance of sound. After all, in "real life", I am a sound technician. So you...

Pros: Travolta, plot
Cons: acting

I like John Travolta is most movies, this one is no exception. He does a pretty good job with what he has to work with.
John Lithgow does a really good job playing a menacing murderer as well - but I tend to think that Nancy, as Sally, should have...