Waste of Money.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A slow-burning thriller with strong performances from stellar cast Richard Harris, Tony Hopkins, Ian Holm, David Hemmings, Omar Sharif & Freddie Jones together with some lovely comedy moments from the wonderful Roy Kinnear. Accepted...not much action but that would have detracted from the confined scenario and character-driven tension. Very underrated and under- appreciated.

When the disaster film craze started to brew up in Hollywood in the early 1970s, the British decided to jump on the bandwagon and make one of their own, that being this film. But it was a huge flop at the box office. It doesn't take long into watching it to figure out why. The first half of the movie is for the most part really boring; it's slow-moving, lacks tension, has weakly constructed characters, and there is no real action. The second half is a little more successful - there is a little tension and suspense brewed. But it's too little and too late. What this movie really needed (among other things) was a few bona fide ACTION sequences to keep the tension high and make the movie appear that it was MOVING. Too many British films that have tried to ape American action films have simply forgotten to deliver when it comes to action and instead become talky gabfests. Incidentally, more than ten years after this movie was made, an episode of the American TV show "MacGyver" blatantly ripped off this movie. Despite being a rip-off, I remember that episode being better (and shorter) than "Juggernaut".

Juggernaut is a terrific film - even now when I rewatch it I still don't know which of the seven bombs will or won't explode.The setting on the boat and each of the metal barrels with their puzzles is a timeless plot.It is clever without being pretentious, very exciting, and has just the right mix of military professionalism and human action to make this tick along.If you have never seen it, do - it hasn't aged a bit. For those watching it again it will still produce chills without resorting to horror, or cheap kicks.A classic well-constructed thriller that really delivers suspense and surprises - highly recommended.

The film is a suspenseful adventure of a group of experts, who have to disarm several bombs in barrels on a liner. The detonators of the bombs are sophisticated secured against disarming. The experts have a wise working procedure: They all work simultaneously on a bomb and communicate with each other via headset. The most experienced top expert describes each step he does in advance, so that the others can follow. Well, if he makes a mistake - it will be his last. His last message to the others is therefore to avoid the particular step.I want to concentrate on a logical mistake in the film and a dangerous violation of the working procedure by the top expert himself which are due to add suspense for the viewer. These faults are made by the script to follow the film principle, that the hero does not die, but have to win in the end.The expert finds a relay, the contacts of which he wants to isolate from each other which he communicates to his partners. But then his friend does this BEFORE him and consequently causes "his" bomb to explode. If they would stick to their usual procedure, the top expert would have to suffer from his mistake.Even worse is the second blunder: The criminal who planted the bombs is a former colleague of Fallon (the film hero) from war times where they did the same job together. After the police found him, he is connected to Fallon via telephone. The last "fuse" for deactivating the bomb is the decision whether to cut a blue or a red wire. One will deactivate the bomb finally, the other will cause it to go off. Fallon asks him, which he should cut. Knowing that he will kill his war friend, the criminal tells him to cut the (wrong) blue wire. First: Why should he be interested to kill his former friend? Nothing in the film indicates any reason for this. But Fallon seems to suspect something. After some seconds of consideration he then cuts the RED wire WITHOUT telling his friends before. Of course it is the correct wire, which he THEN shouts to his friends.Now let's think this over: All his friends heard that he should cut the blue wire and consequently must assume that he will do so, because he did not tell them otherwise. If the criminal had NOT lied and Fallon - as he did - cut the red wire, then the bomb would have gone off. But the others, who assumed, he had cut the blue wire, will now cut the red and thus causing all bombs to explode. Why did Fallon violate their working procedure so dangerously?