The Peacemaker (1997)
director: mimi leder
cast: george clooney, nicole kidman, marcel Iures, aleksandr baluyev, rene medvesek, gary werntz, randall batinkoff, jim haynie, alexander strobele, holt mccallany, michael boatman, joan copeland, carlos gómez, armin mueller-stahl, slavko juraga
The
"HO" staff (so to speak) was looking forward to “The Peacemaker” with
the same kind of morbid curiosity that prompts creeps to drive past the Nichole
Brown Simpson murder scene. Our anticipation/dread was based on the trailer
for this turkey in which Nichole Kidman cries out in her strained American accent,
“Take the shot!” We parroted this line about twenty times before the odious
scene finally came up (so to speak, again). Smirky George Clooney hams it up
big-time as an army specialist who is the buddy/love interest of Mrs. Cruise
(Actually, I don’t know what their relationship was suppose to be). Just pray
to whatever gods you pray to, Sa’heeb, that these two lunk-heads aren’t in anyway
representative of our last line of defense against a covert nuclear attack.
I pledge that if I had a prisoner with the critical information about when and
where The Bomb is going to be planted in NYC and he refuses to talk, I’ll start
clipping off any and all of his extremities to get the information as quickly
as possible. Hey, there’s only eight or so million lives hanging in the balance!
I also pledge that I would blow a toddler’s head off in order to kill the terrorist
scumbag that’s about to commit Armageddon! “Take the shot!?!”... BANG! — Tom
Graney
$1.57
© 1997 Hollywood Outsider™