THE WAR GAME Review II
THE WAR GAME Review: Part I
Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the 1960s (e.g., Fail Safe, Planet of the Apes) and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its effectiveness when almost all other films on the topic seem corny. It’s likely that the timeless effectiveness of Watkins’ film is the very reason it was banned for nearly two decades. Scenes of British police shooting civilians were probably deemed too disturbing. Worse yet, the film’s realistic feel and unflinching look at the total inability of the U.K. government to protect its citizens from a nuclear [...]
by Dan Schneider | November 2, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Documentaries, Film Reviews, Kenneth Tynan, Peter Watkins, The War Game
