Juggernaut

In some ways this is exactly like all of the disaster movies of the 1970's, yet almost every movie or TV show since has borrowed liberally from it. Richard Lester brings some British flair to this film about an luxury ocean liner and the seven explosive barrels carefully placed inside by the pissed-ex-governement-explosives-expert-who-didn't-get-recognition-or-a-decent-pension mad bomber. But it all comes down to that final question, the one that really matters... do you cut the red wire or the blue wire? The story is predictable though done far better than average, and it's a good deal of fun. Richard Harris brings a cynical with as the expert sent to deactivate the bomb, and he leads the strong cast of British actors including Omar Sharif, Anthony Hopkins, David Hemmings, and Ian Holm.