a5c7b9f00b In Washington, the Defense Secretary David Brice has a political dispute with Senator William &#39;Billy&#39; Duvall about the project of a submarine. He asks his advisor Scott Pritchard to invite the Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell, who has become a national hero after rescuing a sailor during a storm, to join his team. Farrell meets Susan Atwell in a party and they have a torrid love affair. Farrell Learns that Susan is Brice&#39;s mistress but he falls in love with her. They spend a weekend together and when they return to Susan&#39;s apartment, Brice rings the bell. The upset Farrell leaves the apartment and sees Brice waiting for Susan. Brice has an argument with Susan and pushes her from the balcony. She falls on a glass table and dies. Brice panics and reports the accident to Pritchard. However, the Machiavellian chief of staff accuses the imaginary Soviet mole Yuri of murdering Susan. Farrell is assigned to lead the investigations to find the identity of Yuri, and gets in serious situation with the presence of witnesses of his weekend with Susan and the regeneration of a Polaroid photo that was found in Susan&#39;s apartment. A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress. The fictional sexual shenanigans depicted in this film, pales in contrast to the actual behaviour of our pubescent President Clinton, however it is realistic. Sean Young, who has a home in Sedona, Arizona, (and believes crystals can actually influence her life) was quite attractive in her very nude scene, her non-silicone enhanced breasts swaying left and right, left and right, left and right slap!;. Ok, now where was I? Oh, yes, the movie has a pace which kept me on the edge of my couch. I thought it was interesting that the writers created a crucial character that resided in a wheelchair and was treated just like a normal person (which is the way it ought to be.) I was really surprised at the ending but was once again let down by Costner&#39;s one-dimensional acting. Never liked it, never will no matter of how many times the public Danish Television is rerunning it (must be close to 10 times, and that is probably a record).<br/><br/>The plot is simple and straightforward. The crew apparently recognized that and tried to think smart producing a stupid and unnecessary end scene, thus the 1 rank.<br/><br/>To give more examples (here comes some spoilers): Being an IT-guy I loathe the computer rendering bit. By far the slowest job I have ever seen. They must have used a 4-bit CPU from the unused Apollo rocket. The guy controlling it is naturally a disabled overweight nerd. And of course he has to die.<br/><br/>Kevin Costner has a white uniform and acts like one. No color here.<br/><br/>Gene Hackman plays the bad guy and does a ditto colorless job. No surprise. Does the same performance in the &quot;Firm&quot; six years later.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t watch it. It&#39;s a complete waste of time. Gripping…A very convincing nightmare, and if Hackman gives too rounded a performance to approach the omniscient evil of Laughton's original, Patton assumes the mantleBrice's henchman, while Costner confirms his arrivala star. Clearly, they can remake 'em like that any more.
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