By Dawn's Early Light
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Movie Reviews of By Dawn's Early Light
Movie Review: One of Rip Torn's best performances
Summary: 5 Stars
"In the early months of 1990, during ethnic unrest in the southern part of the Soviet Union, insurgent units attacked a Soviet Army facility.
Western intelligence received reliable reports that nuclear weapons were `compromised.' "
This is a "what if" speculation film. What if the rebels had carried this one-step further? At one time, we were inundated with such films such as "Fail-Safe" and "Dr. Strangelove." Each of these films had their own strength and weakness. However I consider "I Donne's early light" (1990) to show more human interaction adding to the intensity of the film. This would have made a great play. This film will keep you on the edge your seat speculating as to what you would have done in the situation.
As with many movies of this type, you will notice that popular actors play most of the characters from the time. However, you will also notice that they do not overwhelm the characters that they play. I was especially interested in how Martin Landau as the president desperately tries to maintain peace however mainly not any price. Powers Boothe and Rebecca De Mornay add most of the human interest that was missing from the other films.
Remember this is a 1990 movie a different era and a different mindset. However, you will not regret watching this film and speculating on the future.
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Movie Review: A Surprisingly Great Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this film via the suggestions made on Amazon while picking up my old favorites On the Beach and Fail-safe (Special Edition). I found The Bedford Incident in the same way. I must say that for an HBO production this really has a theatrical feel to it and I suspect could even have been shown in theaters successfully when it was made. It is a chilling and tightly directed thriller about one of the ways we could, and still can, annihilate ourselves. The acting is absolutely superb from each and every cast member. With greats like James Earl Jones and Matin Landau, how can you go wrong? I tried to watch this while doing some other work and really could not - it demands your full attention and rightly so. Although some of the dialogue is necessarily dated (references to "the Soviets," for example) the plot really holds up quite well despite being made over 20 years ago. I feel this film really belongs up there with the likes of Fail Safe, Dr. Stragelove and the like. It is a terrific example of the genre.Movie Review: Will somebody give me a cigarette!
Summary: 5 Stars
The James Earl Jones cigarette bit in "By Dawn's Early Light" is one of my all time favorite movie scenes--maybe second only to Tom Cruise's deathbed scene in "Magnolia." The scene is funny, but it makes sense, too, since he's in this unthinkable struggle to save the world with a best case senario that includes his own death.My genius friend found the movie too chaotic a representaion of choas, which I don't see. I see a likely and well developted plot: the Secretary of interior seems to be rooted in any one of our current leaders (in 2004).
Oh, well. I was surpised at how much the movie still moved me when I tracked it down again 12 or so years after seeing it on HBO. I might have been 11 when I first saw it. It was part of my phase in which I was obsessed with the notion of nuclear war and was having frequent nightmares.
Movie Review: Know and respect the filmmakers
Summary: 5 Stars
I worked with Charlie Mullen (DP for Lucasfilm and Boeing) and I've been in lust -- er, love -- with the delicious Rebecca De Mornay forEVER, and visually speaking this was a spectacular bit of work. It's not as deep as "Fail-Safe" nor quite as action-packed (or silly) as "Dr. Strangelove" but having worked with Charlie (see "Cocoon", "*batteries not included", etc.) and knowing how seriously he takes his work, I know that this was a GREAT film, for technical artists and others to appreciate, for the work that he and Craig Barron and everyone else at MatteWorld contributed. This deserved the Emmies they won, it's a bad script and dumb story, but EXCEPTIONAL visual effects. And I'd love to have Ms. De Mornay in my right-seat ANY DAY! (At least the B52s in this film didn't cast a shadow of a B-17 on the landscape!)Movie Review: By Dawns Early Light
Summary: 5 Stars
A drama about a possible nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. The plot revolves around so called Soviet terrorists who steal a Russian missile and detonate it over Russia from Turkey making the Soviet defense computers think that the Americans and Nato are attacking them. Martin Landau plays the President who's helicopter crashes after a Russian missile explodes near the capitol. The only other person in the legal chain of succession is the Secretary of the Interior played perfectly by the late Darrin McGavin, who's insane logic that the U.S. can win a nuclear exchange, makes you hate and pity him for having to make a terrible decision. The climax is pretty good and the action was pretty good throughout. Powers Boothe and Rebecca DeMornay also star.