12-17-2020, 09:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2020, 09:13 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Bill Pulman is an alcoholic chess master enlisted to play a Russian grandmaster at a championship in Warsaw, but the real reason is to get microfilm that is critical to the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was meandering and I had a hard time tracking what the point of it was, but Stacy called the mole rather early on. There were echoes of The Queen's Gambit, or perhaps the other way around, because the chess masters were addicts and needed chemicals to focus. There was also a bit of cold war spy stuff like The Spy who came in from the Cold. However this film fell short of both of those previous viewings - in fact, it was spoiled by them. It had some decent twists at the end, but Stacy called the main one and the rest sort of fell into place around that.
It ended with a pre-credit epilogue about how the crisis eventually led up to the INF between Reagan and Gorbachev, however 45 broke that treaty in 2019 and Putin followed. And now we're nuclearly fucked again.
No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended.
It ended with a pre-credit epilogue about how the crisis eventually led up to the INF between Reagan and Gorbachev, however 45 broke that treaty in 2019 and Putin followed. And now we're nuclearly fucked again.
No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
