The Peacemaker (1997)

A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.

Director:

Mimi Leder

Writers:

Leslie Cockburn (article), Andrew Cockburn (article),

Stars:

George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
George Clooney	...	Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
Nicole Kidman	...	Dr. Julia Kelly
Marcel Iures	...	Dusan Gavrich
Aleksandr Baluev	...	General Aleksandr Kodoroff (as Alexander Baluev)
Rene Medvesek	...	Vlado Mirich
Gary Werntz	...	Terry Hamilton
Randall Batinkoff	...	Ken
Jim Haynie	...	General Garnett
Alexander Strobele	...	Dietrich Schuhmacher
Holt McCallany	...	Mark Appleton
Michael Boatman	...	CPN Beach
Joan Copeland	...	Senator Helen Bevens
Carlos Gómez	...	Santiago
Armin Mueller-Stahl	...	Dimitri Vertikoff
Slavko Juraga	...	Stevo

Storyline

Two trains crash somewhere in Russia, one carrying a nuclear payload. A nuclear explosion follows the crash and the world is on alert... However, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly doesn't think it was an accident... Special Operations Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe doesn't think so either... Together they must unravel a conspiracy that goes from Europe to New York, to stop a terrorist who has no demands...

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Plot Keywords:

nuclear explosion | train crash | russia | nuclear weapons | train | 

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Taglines:

How do you get the world's attention?

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence and some language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian Serbian Bosnian Croatian

Release Date:

26 September 1997 (USA)

Also Known As:

Peacemaker

Filming Locations:

Cremosne, Slovakia

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$9,200,000 (Non-US) (31 October 1997)

Gross:

DEM 12,468,976 (Germany) (19 December 1997)

Company Credits

Production Co:

DreamWorks SKG

Technical Specs

Runtime:

124 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A complete list of LTC Thomas Devoe's decorations and badges: Lieutenant Colonel, Special Forces Branch, 2nd Ranger Battalion Scroll, Special Forces Tab, Ranger Tab. Special Forces Unit Crest, Thailand Army Parachutist Qualification Badge, Combat Infantryman's Badge, Pathfinder Badge. Joint Meritorious Unit Award. Silver Star with Bronze "V" device ;(Note: the Bronze V Device is not authorized for wear on the Silver Star medal.), Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with two bronze Oak Leaf Clusters in lieu of repeat awards, Army Commendation Medal with one bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a repeat award, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with one bronze Star in lieu of a repeat award, Southwest Asia Service Medal with two gold Stars in lieu of repeat awards, Army Service Ribbon, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait - Saudi Arabia, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait - Emirate of Kuwait.

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Goofs

In photographs of the truck supposedly taken by satellite, foreground objects are larger than those in the background. This kind of perspective would not be visible in an image taken by satellite.

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Quotes

Devoe: [Devoe phones Kodoroff, who is driving a truck loaded with stolen nuclear warheads] You watched CNN during Desert Storm. You remember all those television shots from the nose cone of the GBU missiles slammin' into those trucks? Remember that picture? How it kept gettin' closer and bigger on the screen... You'd just about see the faces of those drivers and then... Zap! The picture went dead, we didn't get to see what happened next. Well guess what, Alek? You will.

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Connections

Featured in A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

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Soundtracks

"NOCTURNE IN C-SHARP MINOR, OP. POSTH."
Music by Frédéric Chopin

User Reviews

Simple but effective action movie.

There is nothing in "The Peacemaker" that is new or something we haven't seen done before in an action movie. Yet the movie serves its purpose; to bring some mindless entertainment with some nicely done action.

Nicole Kidman in a main part of an action movie? Yes, Nicole Kidman in the main part of an action movie and who would have ever known, she is actually believable in her part but her acting is just a bit too standard and boring but yet like I said before, her characters remains believable. Thumbs up for that! But the best roles are played by George Clooney and Armin Mueller-Stahl, who is always great in a movie.

The movie's opening is really a memorable one and is one of the very best action movie openings I have ever seen along with "The Rock", which was made one year earlier. After that the movie looses some of it's power and pace and we begin losing interest until the next action sequence occurs. Yes, it truly are the action sequences that are the highlights of the movie and make this movie a watchable one.

The visual style of the movie is also what makes this movie above average. The cinematography by Dietrich Lohmann gives the movie a cool action movie feeling. Dietrich Lohmann unfortunately died not much later during or shortly after completing the movie "Deep Impact".

The music by Hans Zimmer is most excellent. Zimmer and co really set up some new standards for action movie soundtracks in the nineties.

Standard action movie but well executed!

7/10

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