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The Coldest Game

  • 20192019
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 1h 42m
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6.2/10
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Bill Pullman in The Coldest Game (2019)
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During 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.During 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.During 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
11K
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    • Lukasz Kosmicki
    • Lukasz Kosmicki(screenplay)
    • Marcel Sawicki(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Bill Pullman
    • Lotte Verbeek
    • James Bloor
    • Lukasz Kosmicki
    • Lukasz Kosmicki(screenplay)
    • Marcel Sawicki(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Bill Pullman
    • Lotte Verbeek
    • James Bloor
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    • 92User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    Robert Wieckiewicz in The Coldest Game (2019)
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    Bill Pullman and Robert Wieckiewicz in The Coldest Game (2019)
    Bill Pullman in The Coldest Game (2019)
    Bill Pullman and Evgeniy Sidikhin in The Coldest Game (2019)
    Bill Pullman, Edward Assarabowski, Dariusz Dluzewski, and Miroslaw Kupiec in The Coldest Game (2019)
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    Bill Pullman in The Coldest Game (2019)
    Bill Pullman in The Coldest Game (2019)
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    Bill Pullman
    Bill Pullman
    • Joshua Mansky
    Lotte Verbeek
    Lotte Verbeek
    • Agent Stone
    James Bloor
    James Bloor
    • Agent White
    Robert Wieckiewicz
    Robert Wieckiewicz
    • PKiN Director
    Aleksey Serebryakov
    Aleksey Serebryakov
    • General Krutov
    Corey Johnson
    Corey Johnson
    • Donald Novak
    Nicholas Farrell
    Nicholas Farrell
    • G. Moran
    Evgeniy Sidikhin
    Evgeniy Sidikhin
    • Alexander Gavrylov
    Cezary Kosinski
    Cezary Kosinski
    • John Gift
    Aleksandr Lobanov
    • Adjutant to Krutov
    Wojciech Mecwaldowski
    Wojciech Mecwaldowski
    • Master of Ceremony
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    Magdalena Boczarska
    • Gienia
    Andy Beckwith
    Andy Beckwith
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    John Benfield
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    Ludwik Borkowski
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    • Katherine Cooper
      • Lukasz Kosmicki
      • Lukasz Kosmicki(screenplay)
      • Marcel Sawicki(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Lead actor William Hurt broke his leg in an off-set accident a few days after filming started. The injury was so bad that he had to be replaced by actor Bill Pullman.
    • Goofs
      The American flag is displayed improperly on the wall during the chess match. According to US flag etiquette, the blue star field should always be displayed in the upper left hand corner when the flag is hung on a wall.
    • Quotes

      Title Card: In the early 1960s, U.S. - Soviet realtions are the worst in the history of the Cold War. After the Cuban Revolution, Soviet troops are only 100 miles from Florida.

      Title Card: In October 1962, President Kennedy is informed of silos built in Cuba and increased Soviet military activity. It looks like preparations for war.

      Title Card: A global war.

      Title Card: A nuclear global war.

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      Music by Milosz Wosko

      Performed by Przemyslaw Florczak, Sebastian Frankiewicz, Robert Murakowski, Maciej Szczycinski & Milosz Wosko

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    5/10
    Watchable but with problems
    This is a spy thriller set during the Cuban missile crisis, and centred around a fictional chess match between the Soviet and US chess champions in Warsaw. The US player is indisposed at the last minute, and the Americans substitute the last US player to beat him in a game, a college maths professor with a drink problem, played by Bill Pullman, who no longer plays chess. It transpires that the CIA have an interest in the match, with a clandestine meeting set up. But who can be trusted?

    Bill Pullman is a good actor and does his best with the material, but the plot is pretty thin, the kind of thing you might see in a single episode of a TV series. There are also some irritating errors. One CIA person says that they know Russians have sent ships to Cuba but were "too small" to carry nuclear warheads. This is ludicrous, as. a nuclear warhead measures maybe three feet by one, and weighs about 100 kg. It would fit in a canoe, never mind a cargo ship.

    On the chess front, I am probably being picky as I play chess quite a bit, but there are also several annoying aspects. The person who oversees the game is an "arbiter", not a "judge", and players do not pass draw offers via the arbiter, they just ask the other player. I understand that for film reasons the players are playing their moves unnaturally fast, but near the start the Pullman character says that the opening will "come down to the Italian game or the Rousseau defence" after the Russian's first move is revealed. This is absurd, as the Italian game is somewhat rare at grandmaster level, and the Rousseau opening is extremely obscure and would never be played at really top level. As for someone who hasn't played chess for a couple of decades beating the top Soviet player, that SI extremely implausible. Even Garry Kasparov, former world champion and arguably the best player of all time, struggled to perform in a tournament when he made a brief comeback a decade or so after he retired.

    I had more of a practical issue with the main information to be passed at the clandestine meeting, which seemed unlikely to really be the key to the Cuban missile crisis to me but I don't want to reveal a spoiler. The bigger issue is that the film rather plods along, with limited tension. It is watchable, but hard to really recommend.
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    • Feb 9, 2020

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    • Release date
      • February 8, 2020 (United States)
      • Poland
      • United States
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      • Russian
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      • Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
    • Production companies
      • Watchout Studio
      • TVN
      • Next Film
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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