Dark comedy at its best

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 2006)

Being a great fan of Mr Kubrick, it was with great expectations that I saw this movie. And I was not disappointed. Its a cult film, an in your face, dark comedy on the state of affairs during the cold war days. The characters are very cleverly created and portrayed in even better manner by some very talented actors like George C Scott, Peter Summers and more. I was particularly impressed by George. The storyline, the characterization, the situations, are all top class.
Its a story about how a lunatic general makes a mockery of the various safety procedures, that our Governments keeps promising us with respect to the Nuclear Arms and their usage, and orders his B52 bombers to attack USSR with nuclear warheads. What follows is a crazy sequence of events in which the USA govt tries its best to some how control the situation and recall the planes.
In between it also makes an attempt to bring to notice to strange ways with which the Govts and Defence Establishment work together. The telephonic conversations between the two head of states of USA and USSR are very hilarious.
Its a movie not to be missed. 10 out of 10 for me.