John Frankenheimer’s thriller about a terrorist group plotting to detonate the Goodyear Blimp over the Super Bowl and kill 80,000 people seemed deliriously far-fetched in the late ’70s, but in the post-9/11 world it has an eerie, unsettling relevance. The narrative moves at a good clip, but Frankenheimer really turns up the heat once the blimp is headed toward its target and it is up to Robert Shaw’s Israeli agent to stop it, which leads to a genuinely heart-pounding climax that even shoddy special effects can’t entirely diminish. (On a side note, the football scenes were filmed during Super Bowl X, and whoever edited the film clearly doesn’t like the Cowboys because it seems like only footage involving the Steelers scoring or Roger Staubach being sacked got included in the final film.) (DVD)