This is a movie that takes nuclear brinkmanship and adds a few twists. I'm not a low budget film fan at all, but this movie is one of those that will make you forget about the budget & will have you so immersed that it will just leave you mouthing the "WOW" (or some variation of that) at the end of the film. Although the movie is a bit dated now, it still ranks as one of the best examples of what it really takes to make a great movie... simply great acting & directing. Very few movies make my best movie list, Kevin Pollack has 2 movies on that list (the other being "The Usual Suspects")which is a feat in & of itself.

Not great art or cinema, but an interesting and entertaining movie. Certainly gets the part right about who are the people trying to kill us and that we should take them seriously and resolve the problem before it is too late to do it without massive casualties. Sheryl Lee Ralph is much under used actor; I have never seen her do a bad job, and usually she is excellent, as she is here. Timothy Hutton is an excellent actor (pick up a copy of Q&A, excellent movie)and again, for some reason he does not get enough good parts. And who does not like Kevin Pollack? He is entertaining in everything he does. If would have been nice if they could have upped the budget a few dollars for some decent cut through footage, but hey, this movie is basically for the folks that think.

A very strange, ill-directed mess. Starts in black and white, for no evident reason. It includes a waitress character who's supposedly French-Canadian but sounds more like a, oh, Romanian or something. The basic plot -- a presidential candidate marooned in a diner during a Colorado snow storm, finding himself the unexpected commander in chief dealing with a sudden war in Iraq -- is nonsensical and absurd.The acting is appalling throughout -- actors doing the job for the paycheque, under the direction of a hack.This would have been a bad made-for-TV movie.It's an utterly terrible attempt at satire, which turns out a foolish mess.Avoid this crap if you can.

Okay. I saw this listed on the Scream network last night (Thursday Thriller) and the plot sounded pretty good, so I checked it out. The cast was great. I thought maybe this was a play originally, because the whole movie takes place in the diner. The plot is basically that the V.P. has been acting president for several months after the death of the president. He is on the campaign trail, and he has won an important primary. A debilitating snowstorm lands him in a little isolated country greasy spoon diner, where several otherlocals and customers are stranded. All hell breaks loose when the TV announces that Saddam Hussain's son Uday has invaded Kuwait. This one has actually held up fairly well as a post 9/11 alternate history. Shawn Astin plays a local redneck. There is a couple in the diner waiting out the storm by squabbling and playing chess; the president offers an opinion on the board setup. I suspect that most world leaders are pretty good at chess or they don't last long in office.The cast of characters was pretty representative of the American sentiments. The part I disbelieve the most is the fact that a nuclear bomb blasting away a whole city of innocents could be taken so lightly by a president. In real life, I doubt if he would get away with his decision in these times... since we are now all too painfully aware of how united the Arabs can be; the movie would have an epilogue entitled 'Retaliation'.Ask me now if I mind that Uday is not around to follow in his father's footsteps... not likely.