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Thriller, Drama, War 112 min NR
Rotten Tomatoes93%Metacritic75IMDb
It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
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Epic, relentless, bleak and plot-driven.
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**Fail Safe (1964)** _Directed by Sidney Lumet_ Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe is one of the first Hollywood films to seriously propose that nuclear Armageddon could be brought about by system error. A technical malfunction sends American bombers to Moscow with orders to attack, and the President (Henry Fonda) must work desperately to stop catastrophe before it's too late. Based on a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, the screenplay is excellent, the tension relentless, the performances more than sufficient to create the desired effect. As far as nuclear war goes, we as a world apparently have not made any progress toward reducing the risk of suddenly and catastrophically wiping out most of Earth's population. If anything, it's now worse. More nations have nuclear weapons, command structures are more fragmented, and the possibility of miscalculation or accident has only multiplied. It is ironic that the movie hinges on a mechanical failure. Even now, politicians are talking about AI-controlled weapons, and we all know the safety rating of AI is not anywhere near 100%. We're rushing headlong into systems we don't fully understand, trusting machines to make decisions that could en
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