Amazing Story

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2004)

It's amazing to see just how close we were to a nuclear war. Whilst poetic license will clearly have been taken with the script, it's quite clear that the world was clearly on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuba missile crisis. Had events taken a slightly different course many of the people on this site wouldn't have been born and those that were would have lived in a very different world.
Like most films based on real events this film has got to make up for the fact that most viewers will know the ultimate outcome. The good thing with this film is that most viewers will not know the detail, so quite a few of the scenes do retain an element of surprise. All the leads put in a sound performance, but it's the story itself that makes this a good film. 8/10.