I sat through this dreck on a boring Friday night.
It's another one of those exercises in frustration. Does this film try to uphold American patriotic jingoism or is it a send-up? Both at once? Neither? It ain't good when a movie this overtly political only confuses the viewer with its message.
If THAT is the intent, doesn't the film fail completely?
From a dramatic standpoint, the film's setting in a remote location--a diner in a small, snowbound Colorado town--is an excellent premise, as is the de rigeur ensemble cast. (The screenplay would stand better as a stage play: few props, stark lighting.) But that's about all that can be said that's positive.
One of the craziest details of the story (among several others that are downright LAUGHABLE) is the "100-megaton" weapon dropped from a bomber aircraft on Baghdad. One hundred megatons? The former Soviet Union developed and tested a 57-megaton weapon in 1961. The weapon was so outsized that its carrier plane needed modification to its bomb bay doors just to get the thing off the ground. Furthermore, the largest weapon ever in use in the U.S. arsenal was 9 megatons, and it has been phased out for smaller bombs.
So, yes, the bomb sure went off on this one. Don't bother.
It's another one of those exercises in frustration. Does this film try to uphold American patriotic jingoism or is it a send-up? Both at once? Neither? It ain't good when a movie this overtly political only confuses the viewer with its message.
If THAT is the intent, doesn't the film fail completely?
From a dramatic standpoint, the film's setting in a remote location--a diner in a small, snowbound Colorado town--is an excellent premise, as is the de rigeur ensemble cast. (The screenplay would stand better as a stage play: few props, stark lighting.) But that's about all that can be said that's positive.
One of the craziest details of the story (among several others that are downright LAUGHABLE) is the "100-megaton" weapon dropped from a bomber aircraft on Baghdad. One hundred megatons? The former Soviet Union developed and tested a 57-megaton weapon in 1961. The weapon was so outsized that its carrier plane needed modification to its bomb bay doors just to get the thing off the ground. Furthermore, the largest weapon ever in use in the U.S. arsenal was 9 megatons, and it has been phased out for smaller bombs.
So, yes, the bomb sure went off on this one. Don't bother.