I love "The Peacemaker". I think its so fun and really exciting. Yes, its cheesy and at times very unrealistic, but I really have a great time watching it. Nicole and George are great and the story is neat and thrilling. I find this to be great popcorn entertainment. Who else agrees!?
shareI agree 100% that it's a riveting and sleek thriller.
It's fast paced, kept my interest all the way through and has some great juggernaut tension at the final act - the chase in NY culminating in Nicole preventing Fission in the small nuke. Very realistic and extremely well directed !!!
I disregard all the noise here on this board about morons with personal agendas/hangups thinking this is anti-Serbian etc.
The film is pretty much as realistic as it gets vis-a-vis its Nuclear themes, despite the hollow criticism of a few clearly uninformed (which I've commented on in the proper place)
George Clooney & Nicole Kidman work together like magic. This is IMO one the best performances of Nicole Kidman !
I love this movie too! It's very entertaining. The whole idea of a stolen nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists is a very frightening and a very realistic threat... probably more realistic post 9/11 (after this film was made.) It's very fast paced, the acting is solid, the chemistry between George and Nicole is sizzling, the music rocks and it kept me engrossed until the end. I also like how they told the story of the would be bomber. It was very sad but shows that every person has a story and that nothing is black and white.
shareI thought it was an awesome thriller. I've seen it three times. I don't know why it got so much criticism. If it used a lot of cliches (like the characters diving towards the camera with a massive explosion in the background) so what? There's nothing wrong with making an excellent potboiler. And this happens to be an intelligent potboiler about real issues that affect the world today.
The best way to inform and educate the public about any issue is to wrap it in an exciting story that keeps the viewers attention (just take a look at "Blood Diamond"). "The Peacemaker" probably did a lot more for the issue of smuggling nukes than any ten episodes of "Sixty Minutes".
-We got a job-
-What kind?-
-The forever kind-
It was exciting. Sure, the script wasn't flat out flawless, it had flaws. It was hilarious. This one line just cracked me up - when the guy goes something about a terrorist being educated in Harvard in the US, and then George Clooney's character goes "Yeah, because we educated every terrorist in this world."
shareHaha! That is not something wrong my friend! People from "terrorist" countries who attend US universities come face to face with the obvious. Plus they become skilled person (the point of irony in Clooney's words) that can actually organize a movement and cause great harm.
As long as you believe it, it is true.
This may sound like a stretch, but it's just like in "Rambo". The government created a highly trained killer, but didn't know what to do with him when he became an unemployed killer.
"We got a job"
"What kind?"
"The forever kind"
I do love it. I don't care about the geographical errors and other goofs. This movie (like any other) takes place in a parallel universe where things exactly are as depicted. If I want 100% realism, I watch a documentary... but keep in mind that many documentaries these days are even more fake than movies. At least movies are honest about it, by clearly stating that they are purely fictional.
The best scene is the whole helo operation. Very cool and exciting.
p.s.: it's also one of the last movies where Nicole Kidman still was natural and beautiful, before she became one more blonde, underweight and fake as hell Hollywood bimbo.
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Great movie. Everything an action thriller is supposed to be.
"Time is the fire in which we burn"
I'm a fan of this film. Clooney and Kidman have great chemistry, the dialogue rings authentic, and it takes a neuron or two of involvement to keep up with the goings-on. It credits its audience of not having to rely solely on the "cut to the chase" mentality most "action" films resort to. As far as the bizarre, irrelevant hissy fits toward Russia and Serbia...wherever there are message boards, there are strange birds posting strange thoughts upon them.
So...I guess you can put me in the "agree" column...
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Yeah I like it. It's one of those typical 90s action thrillers I grew up with, and it's one of the smarter ones. Let's face it, ultra realism didn't exist then, and it has far less of an agenda than anything made today.
It's a shame the board is so caught up with anachronistic propaganda bashing and nationalist rage. I can understand the frustration and anger from the Balkan users, but I think you have to take a step back with these old Hollywood action movies. In the 90s, no one was trying to make a statement with action flicks, and this probably brought more awareness of the Balkan Conflict to the average American than any newscast.
I think it's *beep* awesome.
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