In the fall of 1997, every nuclear device in the world will be accounted for...except one.
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20226/10
Well at least there is some eye candy - George Clooney is at his most alluring. Otherwise, this is really all rather a dull and unremarkable thrill-free thriller that follows the antics of an American colonel "Devoe" and his handler "Kelly" (Nicole Kidman). He is a special intelligence officer, she a scientific expert at the White House - and both are concerned following a nuclear accident on board a train in Russia. Was it an accident? What happened to the warheads that were being transported? Is this a state sponsored bit of warmongering, or have the Kremlin got some rogues to deal with? Of course it falls to our not very dynamic duo to thwart the dastardly plan before the United Nations itself becomes a target. It's got all the usual ingredients - political machinations in Washington, Vienna comes in for quite a pummelling and, of course, there are pyrotechnics too - but the whole film is just too derivative. It smacks of a weak "James Bond" style affair, only without the gadgets or the power ballad. The supporting cast are adequate, and from the looks of it pretty local to the Macedonian location filming, but that authenticity does nothing to augment the pretty stilted dialogue
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Cast
- George ClooneyLt. Col. Thomas Devoe
- Nicole KidmanDr. Julia Kelly
- Marcel IureșDusan Gavrich
- Aleksandr BaluevGeneral Aleksandr Kodoroff
- Rene MedvešekVlado Mirich
- Armin Mueller-StahlDimitri Vertikoff
- Goran VišnjićBazta Sergeant
- Tamara TunieJody
- Gary WerntzTerry Hamilton
- Randall BatinkoffKen
Crew
- Mimi LederDirector
- Michael SchifferScreenplay
- Kevin BernhardtWriter
- Dietrich LohmannDirector of Photography
- Hans ZimmerOriginal Music Composer
- David RosenbloomEditor
- Branko LustigProducer
- Walter F. ParkesProducer
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