497e39180f Several severe accidents happen in different amusement parks. Technical supervisor Calder suspects it's no coincidence and starts to investigate. Soon he finds out that a psychopath blackmails a whole conglomerate of companies for a million dollars, and urges them to inform the FBI. But the blackmailer, who observed the company bosses all the time, learns about it and demands that Calder delivers the money… and sends him on a nerve-shattering trip through an amusement park to deliver the money, while the FBI observes him closely and tries to bust the electronically skilled terrorist. The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a hard time to the cops after they give him UV marked money. He then wants revenge and places a bomb in a roller coaster at the most important amusement park event of the year. I knew this movie in my childhood and still now I watch it time by time because it mesmerizes me.Both Italian and American version are good.<br/><br/>OCEANVIEW PARK,Virginia: the carriages of a roller-coaster collapse after the explosion of a bomb that uproots a stretch of tracks.Roller-coaster opens with this shocking premise.Who's behind all this mess? A psycho extortionist, brilliantly played by a really cute BOTTOMS.His performance gives the best of him, carrying on an impressive sense of isolation and anonymous danger.He's an enigmatic shadow eclipsing crowded amusement parks and embodying a mimetic threat that strikes against carefree sunny festivities and unaware middle-class families. It's a nightmare without even a name.Do you remember "Two minute warning"?I usually consider both of these tales under the same allegory.In one, there is a shooting man whose identity remains unknown.In the other, there is a terrorist you can look at but uselessly 'cause he's inscrutable detached remote.One man uses the gun to shot people indistinctly from a tiny tower of a stadium.The other uses a modern technological enjoying trap as a weapon.Anyway, all of us could be the deadly target under a deranged stranger's sight. SPOILER ahead:Roller-coaster comes to height in one of my favorite scenes.At last,BOTTOMS and not less extraordinary SEGAL (on the other side of the track)come face to face as two medieval soldiers after a long-desperate battle.Really you can't say who's the winner between them.BOTTOMS is hating his prosecutor and stares at him in anger and defenselessly.SEGAL's quiet and resigned as ever, but in the middle of the match…the lethal weapon strikes again (see also THE BLACK CAR or CASSANDRA CROSSING).Not even the master can dominate his modern mechanical horses, pushed by centrifugal forces.In the best tradition taught by '70s movies, society pays always an high price due to its way of mechanizing reality (remember Austherity and oil crisis in that period).During the movie,Mr.GOLDSTONE cleverly catches pieces of dialogs between parks' frequenters on the other side, showing current conflicts of an ordinary life.So the parks become a frame surrounding a little universe where the bomber acts on his own.Schifrin's soundtrack's overwhelming and it reminds PSYCHO and THE JAWS. The SPARKS rock band gives the final touch, over crossing. I've red Mr.GOLDSTONE has passed away and I'm upset due to this new. He'll be one of my greatest idols, ever. 10/10 i thought this was a pretty good little thriller.it kept me entertained throughout,and it never became boring.In a nutshell,it's a about a guy who blows up a roller coaster ride and extorts money from the owners of other amusement parks to keep more of the same from happening to their roller coasters.Timothy Bottoms plays the psychopath,with George Segal as his main nemesis.Bottoms is quite chilling and cold,and Segals' character matches wits him.watch for a young Helen Hunt,as well.i really liked the music by Lalo Schifrin,which is reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann.it really added to the atmosphere.the tension and suspense is down to the wire in this one.for me,Roller-coaster is a 6/10
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