Rating (1 to 10) : 5
Summary: Kidman and Clooney team
up to stop a nuclear bomb.
Nicole Kidman (Suzanne Stone Maretto in To Die
For), as Julia Kelly, and George Clooney (Dr. Ross in the TV series
E/R), as Thomas Devoe, star in
this action flick about stopping the proliferation of nuclear arms to
terrorists and such.
A few warheads from a train shipment are hijacked and one warhead explodes (the
scene is the FX highlight of the film, BTW). Kelly and Devoe then attempt to
track down the missing warheads.
The story unfolds, moving from action scene to dialogue between the shapely and
lanky Kidman and the masculine hero Clooney. This is the first film where
Kidman is a brunette and it does help in portraying a nuclear scientist out to
stop nuclear proliferation more plausible to the viewer.
The terrorists who hijacked the nuclear warheads are really
members of the Russian organized mob out to sell them to the highest bidder.
But one nuclear warhead is given to a Dusan Gavrich (Marcel Iures, Golitsyn
in Mission Impossible), an embittered man who lost both his wife and
only child in the bloody civil war in the former nation of Yugoslavia. He wants
to make a political statement by blowing up New York City using the one nuclear
warhead. Why he blames the US isnt
explained logically but then again, this is a fictional movie. Just in time, Kelly and Devoe get wind of
this and stop him in time.
Although the FX scene of the nuclear explosion is good, the movie was lacking
in suspense. The pace slowed at times, you weren't sure if there was going to
be a "love" angle between Kelly and Devoe, and there weren't many
surprises to keep you entertained. An
average movie.