What happened to John Travolta? He was so good when he was younger. I suppose that's not really fair. The man has to earn a paycheck. It's just hard to see him doing such great work here and then see Look Who's Talking Too in his filmography. Jack Terry (John Travolta) is a sound engineer for low-budget slasher films. While out recording background noise, he picks up the sound of a tire blowing out and turns to see a car plunge into the river. He rescues the girl (Nancy Allen) but the driver, a Presidential hopeful, is dead. Playing back the tape later, Jack realizes that the tire was shot out. This puts him at odds with an overzealous assassin (John Lithgow) trying to tie up loose ends.
There was a movie that came out a couple of years ago called Berberian Sound Studio that also had to do with a sound engineer. I kept seeing references to this film in a lot of the articles about it. If it is half as good as Blow Out, I will definitely be impressed. Brian De Palma did an incredible job with this film, especially pacing out all the dark little revelations. I think Hitchcock would have liked it.
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