Product: Special Bulletin (TV-Movie) [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 4.0
Interesting and provacative
The whole "movie" is done to try and not be a movie at all. In the spirit of H.G. Wells and "War of the Worlds" this 'movie' attempts to seem like an actual news broadcast. You watch as a normal news day turns into a national crisis. A group of anti-nuclear activists has assembled a make-shift atomic device of comparable yield to the ones that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thier demands are US nuclear disarmament, in the hopes that if they forced the US to make the first move, the USSR would follow suit by disarming in turn. The plot isn't very plausible, even by 80's standards, but the film is interesting and enjoyable to watch.The special effects in the movie aren't bad, considering the era and the very very very low budget the film must have had. It's interesting to see the news personel changing attitudes, as they slowly begin to grasp the reality of the situation and begin to have a sort of epiphany that the news they report isn't just pictures and facts that don't effect them, it's real.This isn't really something to watch if you're looking for a great movie, but it was enjoyable, especially to anyone who has an interest in nuclear weapons and the politics there of (or the 80's for that matter) and anyone who likes an out of the ordinary, creative film.Also may work as a good practical joke, to put in the VCR on New years eve without telling anyone and wait to see if they can tell that something isnt right LOL. Probably wouldn't work, being the clothing and reporting style is CLEARLY not 2002, but hey.