Lists
- ranked 139 in Empire 500 Greatest Movies (2008)
- ranked 700 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 761 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- ranked 867 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- one of Empire's 250 Greatest Films You've Never Seen
- one of Sight and Sound 75 Hidden Gems
Surprisingly good thriller about a sound technician (John Travolta) who inadvertently records a tape proving that a senator's fatal car accident was actually an assassination. It hasn't aged well, but Travolta is decent; and -- reaching to the bottom of the barrel -- for the males in the audience, there's plenty of gratuitous nudity. Damned by faint praise? Maybe, but the plot is subtle enough that it's saved from mediocrity. It's no Blow-Up, but it's not bad.