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Deterrence
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by Paramount
Sales Rank: 71317
Price: $19.99
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<I>Deterrence</I> offers a welcome throwback to such sweaty-palmed chamber pieces as <I>Fail-Safe</I> and <I>Twelve Angry Men</I>, and in his debut as writer-director, Rod Lurie, a West Point graduate and former film critic, has crafted a taut, one-set drama that would have been ideal for live television. With its provocative what-if scenario and a sharp cast confined to a claustrophobic space, this movie's more clever than coherent, but it grabs your attention for 103 briskly paced minutes.<p> The year is 2008, and U.S. President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) has something to prove. He wasn't elected (he took office upon the death of the previous president), and he needs a pivotal boost in a current primary election. While he and his entourage are trapped under heavy snowfall in a tiny Colorado diner, Emerson must decide whether to unleash a nuclear arsenal on the son of Saddam Hussein, who has invaded Kuwait and taken hundreds of American lives. With his chief of staff (Timothy Hutton), top advisers, and a cluster of terrified diners, Emerson sorts through his options as tensions come to a boil.<p> This all works well on the surface, and <I>Deterrence</I> gains depth by depicting a president who is potentially as evil as his unseen enemy. But the film is almost fatally vague (clearly Lurie wants viewers to bring their own interpretation to these events) and ends with a twist that's too contrived to be dramatically satisfying. Until that point, however, <I>Deterrence</I> will certainly keep you engaged. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
Viewer Reviews
I gave this movie a well deserved 5 stars as it proves that you certainly do not need big names and a big budget to make an intelligent, first class movie. I stumbled accross it by chance about a year ago whilst at home in the evening watching T.V. I'd never heard of it before which is most unusual seeing I consider myself to be a huge movie fanatic. It's like when you watch a horror movie and you never quite get to see the killers face, far more scary. Same principal here as you never go face to face with the enemy, or see any dramatic special effects which often are way over the top and don't look very realistic. Instead, you are left with your imagination of the true horror of what could quite possibly happen. The twist at the end is perhaps a bit far fetched, but who cares, I loved it. Fast paced, tense, gripping, unpredictable and all set in a diner - Bizzare!
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