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Directed by RICHARD LESTER Screenplay by RICHARD DEKOKER...
...movie was directed by Richard Lester, a film maker of satiric skill and carbolic wit unsurpassed in the contemporary English-speaking cinema (Petulia, The Bed Sitting Room and the recent Three Musketeers). Lester is also a superb stylist, and he has made Juggernaut into a cunningly engineered entertainment, full of suspense. The Poseidon Adventure, by inevitable comparison, looks like something staged by a kid in his bathtub just before bedtime. Lester has done the calamity number about as well as it can be done. Why it has to be done at all is another matter...
...Scotland Yard operative (the excellent Anthony Hopkins), and an unflappable ship's captain who keeps his turmoil to himself (Omar Sharif). It is usually clear in these hairbreadth holocaust excursions exactly how they are going to turn out. The object is to obscure the inevitable, an exercise that Lester performs with great skill...
Juggernaut is one of those creations that manage to be pleasant even though they are filled with silly, shallow adventure-film conventions. These are just the conventions that Lester mocked with such glee and fierce precision in one of his best movies, How I Won the War, It is disconcerting to find him, at least temporarily, behind enemy lines...
...Lester book, Leonard says, is just part of a general reaction against affirmative action, and he has a theory on why the reaction is taking place: "Once you get an institution to accept the fact that they have been discriminating, and after you show them how to stop discriminating, you expand competition. White males must now compete with groups that they never had to confront before and this is a threat to their security. Then they have to find means to discredit the new competition in any way possible...