Projekt: Peacemaker (1997)

Projekt: Peacemaker: Directed by Mimi Leder. With George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev. A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they’re used by terrorists.

“Letu0026#39;s be honest first of all. Did anybody think the first movie out of the gate from a studio owned by David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg be an artsy-fartsy film? For what it is, this is pretty good. Director Mimi Leder does a good job keeping everything going (she was less successful with her follow-up, DEEP IMPACT), and I was involved the whole way through. I like George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, but I will admit they donu0026#39;t get a whole lot to do here. Like the similar MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, thereu0026#39;s not a whole lot of character development for the heroes, so the film depends on whether or not you like the stars, and fortunately, I do.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe one distinguishing factor of the movie is the villain, played by Marcel Iures. While the one who steals the missiles is your standard action villain, thereu0026#39;s a gravity and sadness Iures brings thatu0026#39;s unexpected in a film like this. This is no sneering DIE HARD rip-off, but a guy who takes an action because he feels itu0026#39;s the only choice he has, and the film at least brings forth the notion that if thatu0026#39;s how he feels, we the Western powers are somewhat culpable.”