Showed me why I was glad to be a child at the time of the crisis.

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2002)

An interesting story line (presumably largely based on history) but came across as a bit too much of another vehicle for Kevin Costner to be the man behind the throne (cf JFK).
There were some interesting concepts of just how much of the 'buck stops here' with the person of the US President and the way he did/does/can control the military machine. However it quickly became a 'good JFK' and 'bad military' cliche.
In my cinema the last reel was projected with the framing wrong, so we saw the bottom 20% of the frame at the TOP of the projected image and hence the top edge of the image was central screen. Suffice it to say that just about EVERY shot on that reel has a boom microphone bouncing around above the characters. At first I thought we were meant to be watching documentary footage with the news-crews filming the protaganists, but then I realised we were just watching unprofessional cinematography.
I give it 5/10 - they tried and tried hard, but didn't really succeed.