Deterrence (1998)
45 %
Reviews Counted: 38 Fresh: 17 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: The year is 2008 and President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) is stranded in a Colorado diner in the middle of a blizzard. Suddenly, news arrives that Iraq has invaded Kuwait, and threatens the rest of the Middle East with chemical and biological weapons. With most of the U.S. armed forces stuck... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Timothy Hutton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sean Astin, Clotilde Courau
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07/21/05
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Lurie quickly glazes over one important bit of backstory in the early going, a point that is crucial to understand some motivation.
07/16/05
To it's credit, the film doesn't pull many punches . . .It really gets the message across that when you threaten someone with nukes, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger.
03/20/03
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11/06/02
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10/21/02
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10/15/02
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08/17/02
With a strong cast and smart script, Lurie conjures up an engaging scenario with little more than chicken wire and string.
10/24/01
he exciting thing about Deterrence is that *we* are the big scary bad guy who is acting irrationally - and yet the conclusion explains everything.
06/15/01
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In order to get into this film, one must suspend a truckload of disbelief.
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01/01/00
Weighed down by an earnest but dated liberalism that makes Deterrence come across like a TV movie-of-the-week.
01/01/00
As a former film critic, Lurie presumably knows how to communicate ideas, but there's an unbridgeable gap between the movie he thinks he's made and the movie he's actually made.
01/01/00
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