Product: Special Bulletin (TV-Movie) [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 4.0
It's deja-vu all over again!
I saw this movie when it was broadcast 24 years ago, and have never forgotten it. Although I never mistook it for an actual broadcast of a terroristic event (comparisons to Orson Wells' War of the Worlds notwithstanding), the realism and plausibility of the story were truly frightening. Some of you may remember the commotion caused by the 1979 movie "The China Syndrome," about the cover-up of a nuclear accident. That film was released just weeks before the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. Just as then, I had a palpable sense of deja-vu when I saw "Special Bulletin," and 24 years later, when terror struck in New York City on 9/11, I was just 40 blocks away, and I thought "it's finally happening." Watch this movie - given today's political climate, it will scare the socks off you.