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...Armageddon...B-movie feature...
...examination as that no one has had anything new to say about it since Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Just look at the details: Colonel Jack D. Ripper, the good doctor, the Soviet doomsday machine. Not only did Kubrick do nuclear armageddon first, he did it right, eschewing white-knuckled sentimental despair for ballsy black comedy--and unlike Kopit's play, Kubrick delivers on his premise with the end of the world...
...since Slim Pickens rode a rocket to Russia in Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's Cold War comedy classic, has a film stared so unabashedly down the throat of Armageddon. But whereas Dr. Strangelove's power stems from the way Kubrick's finger flirts with the Little Red Button, Tarkovsky presses the button down, then holds it, firmly, for two-and-a-half hours. The result is a film as difficult to assess as the Bomb itself, generating shockwaves of a political, moral, historical, and spiritual nature. The Sacrifice almost demands too much of the viewer, pushing him from breakdown...
Laymen tend to envision a future world war as instant Armageddon. Clancy knows better. Instead of staging yet another atomic holocaust, he imagines a scenario that accounts for much U.S. defense spending: a protracted showdown arising from a conventional Soviet attack on NATO. Although each side briefly contemplates "going nuclear," neither is willing to reach for the button; instead, the fighting involves a land war on the plains of Germany and games of hide-and-seek on the high seas...
...seems, with her assured exoticism, the God-given answer to his yearnings. Hired by her father's thuggish security service, Delaney couples with Danielle while on the job and realizes he is being auditioned for a place in the family. When the Kabbelskis abruptly withdraw to plan their private Armageddon, Delaney wrecks his life pursuing them...