Deterrence | 
| Actors: Sean Astin, John Cirigliano, Clotilde Courau, Jim Curley, Ryan Cutrona
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 37113
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792165209
UPC: 097363381846
EAN: 9780792165200
ASIN: 0792165209
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 2000
Release Date: August 29, 2000
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Deterrence offers a welcome throwback to such sweaty-palmed chamber pieces as Fail-Safe and Twelve Angry Men, 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. 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. This all works well on the surface, and Deterrence 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, Deterrence will certainly keep you engaged. --Jeff Shannon
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 To Nuke or... to Nuke or How We Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb June 1, 2009
A. Dent (Minas Anor, GD)
As incredible as it may seem, 'Deterrence' attempts to make the case for destroying Baghdad by detonating a multi-megaton nuclear bomb. Made before 9/11 and before George W Bush became our president, it is possible that the purpose of the movie was to make the case to the movie-viewing masses for strenghtening the role of America as the world's policeman and ruthless implementer of the Neoconservative agenda as the same was done via think tank discussions, memos and manifestos targeted at the decision makers.
Imagine this: Iraq invades Kuwait, again, and the US president who happens to be Jewish, after consulting with Israel's PM, announces that he would drop a multi-megaton nuke on Baghdad unless Iraq capitulates and Iraq's leader checks himself in to the nearest waterboarding center. Iraq threatens to nuke a couple dozen 'free world' locations, including Beijing, Tokyo and Pensacola, FL (it's true) but, it turns out, the American nukes they bought from the French were all duds. Well... the prez, while fully knowing that the Iraqi nukes posed no danger to anyone, nukes Baghdad anyway to show the world that, when America is threatened, America will use its nukes. All smiles, end of story but not before a patriotic American who fully supports the nuke policy but uses shockingly insensitive language is admonished by the President and hopefully learns a lesson that such language can't be tolerated.
Just in case this didn't register: the US president drops a nuke on the capital city of a country that posed no danger to the US, killing millions, to 'send a message' to the rest of the world.
Nice.
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 Refreshing! November 15, 2008
special agent cross (England, U.K.)
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!
Movie November 30, 2007
Lynda Newman (Kentucky)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Arrived promptly.Thank you. Fantastic movie. Bunch of liberal critics gave it bad reviews as it puts forth a cold hard option in stopping war. I hope it is an option we never use!
Great Political Movie May 15, 2007
S. Cecil (West Coast)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I saw this movie years ago, before our involvement in our current sturggles in Afganistan and Iraq. The movie is good, but the ending makes it great - I love when movies do that! After watching again, was interesting to see how Iraq and our current struggles relate. If you like to keep up on politics, this is a good movie to watch.
Deterrence February 27, 2007
Alex 9292 (San Diego, CA)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
An OUTSTANDING film, and I dare say no more because I don't think you'll publish it. It should be shown on prime-time TV and ACLU, Islamic Societies, or whoemever be darned!. The colors of our flag do NOT run - that is what this film is all about.
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