Goldstein and Keavney managed to do it, make a totally Hollywood formula movie that combines every depressing Hollywood cliche they can think of.
So, I'm not considering that a spoiler, because I won't say what the cliches are.
We have a movie that tries to be sleek, and that only makes it worse, by wasting special effects, the proper scenery, and resources for not only a poor story, not only a predictable story, not only a ridiculous story, but worse than that, a contrived story, the bane of writing.
A small team inside a silo gets orders to send out a nuke, and they try to verify the orders.
Not one character is even remotely credible in this story, not one. Thos who have seen this movie may try to find one, and maybe there are some who have one or two lines, but overall, this is "non credible characters in credible circumstance", the opposite of what a good story is to be.
I only struggle through it to see if the writing would surprise me by making something other than the usual formula, and to critique it. I was ready to give this one every chance, and it blew every chance.
So, I'm not considering that a spoiler, because I won't say what the cliches are.
We have a movie that tries to be sleek, and that only makes it worse, by wasting special effects, the proper scenery, and resources for not only a poor story, not only a predictable story, not only a ridiculous story, but worse than that, a contrived story, the bane of writing.
A small team inside a silo gets orders to send out a nuke, and they try to verify the orders.
Not one character is even remotely credible in this story, not one. Thos who have seen this movie may try to find one, and maybe there are some who have one or two lines, but overall, this is "non credible characters in credible circumstance", the opposite of what a good story is to be.
I only struggle through it to see if the writing would surprise me by making something other than the usual formula, and to critique it. I was ready to give this one every chance, and it blew every chance.