While its treatment of subject matter is in questionable (sometimes even rancid) taste, film manages to be both engaging and quite suspensful, skillfully building a feeling of real dread for most of its length. Characters and characterisations are all stock disaster movie cliches - but the cast surprisingly brings weight and conviction, especially Heston as take-charge police chief. Climax is a superbly choreographed and executed panicked stampede, as good as any action scene I've ever seen.

Slow build to a really harrowing ending. Paced similar to Man on the Roof. One bitterly conservative rant comes out of left field at the end.

A convoluted implausible mess if you're solely referring to the screenplay, a fun time to be had otherwise.

Worst... police... effort... ever! Pretty ridiculous and full of characters who add absolutely nothing to the movie, but also cheerfully cheesy with one-liners like "I repeat, we lost the blimpcamera!" (yes, their main piece of intel on the maniac with the sniper rifle is a camera on a f-ing blimp!). Equally stupid and entertaining.

Not bad.