This movie has all the pieces of a worthless movie. It starts off with a bunch of talking heads, including someone with the radical idea that if the government of a democratic capitalist state wants tanks, it should make it commercially feasible for the seller. Follow that with a bunch of stock footage that advances the story not at all, and make sure it's clear that it's stock footage by using the Ed Wood technique of showing the stock footage interspersed with real footage with no connection, in the hopes that the viewer can make the connection. Then end that with a lame cliche ending and a political quote to make sure that no one thought that this was entertainment instead of propaganda.
SPOILERS: The ending, of course, was the oldest most cliche in the book: a dream, where everybody wakes up and realizes they must fulfill their 'responsibilities'. There were many boring stretches of stock footage, but the worst was the blowing up of Boulder Dam. Nothing connects the bombers to the dam, which we don't see anything happening to - we just see some fire cracker going up. Then follows the stock footage of a flood and the people driving through an area that looks nothing like the area around the dam, nor does the foliage in the flood look like anything that grows around the dam. To top it off, the president gives his big speeches with the camera pointed at the back of his head.
Yet another low budget movie that doesn't deliver the thrills, but this one had the arrogance to be preachy on top of it.
SPOILERS: The ending, of course, was the oldest most cliche in the book: a dream, where everybody wakes up and realizes they must fulfill their 'responsibilities'. There were many boring stretches of stock footage, but the worst was the blowing up of Boulder Dam. Nothing connects the bombers to the dam, which we don't see anything happening to - we just see some fire cracker going up. Then follows the stock footage of a flood and the people driving through an area that looks nothing like the area around the dam, nor does the foliage in the flood look like anything that grows around the dam. To top it off, the president gives his big speeches with the camera pointed at the back of his head.
Yet another low budget movie that doesn't deliver the thrills, but this one had the arrogance to be preachy on top of it.