willcarter-56155 Miracle Mile according to me is one of the most underrated movies made in the 80s. Starring Anthony Edwards(Goose from Top Gun) and Mare Winningham the entire film takes place in real time in the course of one night. It starts off like any romantic movie- boy meets girl and promise to meet for date 2 which never happens as suddenly there is a threat of nuclear war and a bomb being dropped. The sense of urgency, surreal atmosphere and fantastic pacing make Miracle Mile a winner and a film that deserves to be seen more than it has. Please see it and spread the word.

Pete Antonucci what a bizarre movie. disjointed, the whole thing is like a pointless run on sentence. spent most of the time watching waiting for it to be over. don't bother. weird. the best part is the chaos in the streets where people are randomly killing each other, bicycles are crashing, people are knocking over shopping carts(?) what a strange flick.

rzajac Enjoyed it greatly! It's a sort of period piece, with dated production sensibilities. But it has a strange twist, in that it (I guess) narrowly predates the modern o'erweening producer skittishness, and teeters, then jumps headlong, into territory that utterly trounces its genre.The story of Se Jie (Lust|Caution, by Ang Lee) is a long-game romantic theme of heavy power tragically trumping love. It'd be nice to think that "Miracle Mile" successfully compresses this theme and stuffs it through a 24-hour (izzat right?) short-game tube, producing something redemptive and remonstrative and instructive and all that. Not quite. It tries, but it's ultimately what you'd expect; a somewhat tasty, tragic sausage.But: I genuinely admire it for daring to accomplish something so against demographic convention, against fiscal wisdom, and sincerely working so hard to pull it off. I would pronounce it well worth watching, at least to witness the monumental effort expended to make its dark dream come true.

Mr-Fusion There's something kind of hokey about "Miracle Mile", at least with the idealized love story it opens with. That very '80s Tangerine Dream score and the young lovers stuff doesn't give much indication of the nightmarish story to come. This is a movie that dabbles in both the implausible and the induced-panic reality and makes for a very dreamlike atmosphere. But that's what makes it so effective. as the phone call a hoax or is Anthony Edwards really racing against the clock of World War III? You never really know until the very end, and it is indeed chilling. It's a good-looking movie, too. You've gotta appreciate the directorial vision; Steve De Jarnatt creates something otherworldly out of 4am L.A. desolation and coffee shop neon.For something that dances the line between hyperreality and absurdity, this is some highly watchable stuff. Its potency cannot be denied.8/10