Countdown to Zero Hollywood Movie (2010)
Cast And Crew
Cast: Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev,
Tony Blair, Valerie Plame Wilson,
Joe Cirincione, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
F.W. de Klerk, Pervez Musharraf.
Narrated by Gary Oldman.
Director: Lucy Walker
Producers:Lawrence Bender,
Lisa Remington,Matthew Brown,
Bruce Blair,Jeff Skoll,Diane Weyermann
Production Companies: Magnolia Pictures
Cinematographers:Bryan Donnell,
Nick Higgins,Robert Chappell,Gary Clarke
Music: Peter Golub
Theatrical Release:7/23/2010
Unrated. 91 minutes.
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Reviews:
Move over, Freddy Krueger; you're just a cupcake and "Nightmare and Elm Street" is a wet dream. And Dracula's favorite dish is raisin bread pudding. At least that's what all this seems when compared to "Countdown to Zero." You're looking for a horror movie? "Countdown to Zero" makes Jello out of Hostel 2. Don't be surprised if you leave the theater shaking and have nightmares, real ones, for the next week or so. This excellent doc*mentary is about the destruction of the human race, or at least what could have happened several times in the past, and what might happen tomorrow. Think of this charming fact raised by Lucy Walker, who wrote and directs: there are 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world ready to be fired. They could be fired for several reasons other than by an actual attack. 1) Countries or individual terrorist groups can buy what's needed in both technical knowhow and actual Highly Enriched Uranium known as HEU; 2) Terrorists or countries or individuals can steal the weapons, a feat that might still be possible given Russia's casual security measures wherein, as one person states, "Potatoes are better protected than nuclear missiles"; 3) Countries or terrorists can build their own devices.
What's most amazing is that most of us are all still here, alive and kicking, even us New Yorkers are not abandoning ship and heading to Oklahoma, where everything can be OK. When I was a kid, I used to shake in my knickers when air-raid sirens went off as tests. We were told to crouch under our school desks when these tests were conducted. What is even scarier is that now we do not have any tests, no sirens go off, and there's no hiding under desks. Think about that one. Anyway these are some impressions not particularly noted in the film but what moviegoers will think about when they leave the theater, shaking in their boots.
Given the conference about nuclear proliferation held a few months before the U.S. opening of this film, "Countdown to Zero" is a timely topic. Then again, nuclear weaponry has been timely since 1945. Norman Cousins, former editor of the great but now defunct Saturday Review magazine, regularly called nuclear weapons to be an issue pressing that it makes every other news item scarcely relevant. "Countdown to Zero" would be his kind of movie.
Walker wisely keeps the talking heads to a minimum. They can be deadly to any doc*mentary. Instead "Countdown" is chock full of enough explosions to keep 20-year-old fans of summer blockbusters gleefully entertained. Walker dishes out the mushroom cloud over New Mexico, the first U.S. test of an atomic bomb in 1945. Missiles are fired all over the place, some exploding seconds after launching. In a couple of situations, a bomb-carrying plane loses a missile over the sea. The bomb is never recovered. Verbally, though, the most chilling scene indicates that Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin almost pushed the button in 1995 when he spotted an American missile over Norway that was engaged in a test rather than a war game. "Fortunately, Yeltsin was not drunk at the time," states the commentator.
Other vivid and, in a macabre way, entertaining graphics include five-mile circles showing what would happen in such an area in a big city if a bomb went off in Buenos Aires, Beijing, or New York. It's not pretty. Archival film included a view of Hiroshima some time after the August 1945 detonation. There was complete devastation, and that puppy was a firecracker compared to what's in arsenals today.
Some of the rock music excites the audience even more, but some of it is intrusive. But again, even more important is that the film is impressive enough to evoke discussions from audience members in addition to their nightmares. I'm thinking: if Hezbollah launched such a missile at Israel, what could Israel do? If it retaliated by sending one of its own, it would destroy much of Lebanon, whose government and most of its people are not to blame. You will certainly come up with your own scenarios: consider "Countdown to Zero" the needed catalyst to your thinking.
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