This movie looks a little absurd now, living comfortably in the post-Cold War era, but there was a time not 15 years ago when we all knew that total nuclear anhailation was just 45 hair-trigger minutes away. Do you remember talking with your classmates or coworkers about what you'd do with your last 45 minutes on earth? Run and hide? Go get high? Make out with that chick you were secretly in love with in your English class? Life was a bit more exciting back when we were all about to be vaporized by the Russians. And if you can put yourself back in that 80s mindset, you might just love this flick.<p> It's a romantic thriller, set in the not-so-distant past, when survivalist freaks were your friends and neighboors, apocalyptic songs like 1999 were on the radio, and only the most important people in the world had things like laptops and cellphones. Fills a nice gap between war thrillers like Fail Safe or Dr. Strangelove and the depressing anti-nuclear fables like The Day After.
Review of Miracle Mile
