Doesn't Live Up To The Hype

Rating: 2/10 (30 April 2011)

Let me introduce this with the fact that I read about the making of this movie in the "Chicago Tribune", and it mentioned that it was NOT originally intended to be a comedy. Fair warning?
Well, it may have intended to be a dark comedy, but it had few laughs and the storyline wasn't very convincing. Why wouldn't anybody at the base have long since determined that General Ripper was crazy? And the British officer with him, unless he were utterly blind, should have been easily able to see through and overpower him. And it was very hard to believe that a nuclear bomber plane could be located, shot at, and damaged, but still be able to fly all the way to its target without further interference. (When Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was detected by the Soviet air defense force in May 1960, they threw everything they had available at it until it was brought down.)
A few laughs-"Don't fight, this is the War Room!" and such, but overall hardly a good movie.