Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
Prismark10
The Peacemaker was the film that launched Dreamworks, the studio created by Spielberg, Geffen and Katzenberg. The studio that was supposed to revitalise Hollywood but its own dreams fizzled out less than a decade later.George Clooney and Nicole Kidman go out of the gates helped with talent from the television show ER such as director Mimi Leder, so Clooney will feel comfortable with his transition from television star to movie star.Watching the film again, the start of the movie looked rather familiar. It seems Spielberg riffed it for his fourth Indiana Jones film in 2008. Some rogue Russian military officers kill the soldiers in a transport train and steal nuclear warheads. One warhead is left behind which crashes to an oncoming passenger train and is then detonated.The Russians claim it is an accident. The White House nuclear expert Dr Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) believes that the bomb was set off deliberately by terrorists rebels from somewhere like Chechnya. Maverick Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) believes that this was an elaborately staged heist to market nuclear weapons to the highest bidder. With the bomb going off it could be months before anyone can get to the accident site to find out what happens, enough time for the villains to carry out their plan.Kelly and Devoe join forces and discover that the plan involves more than selling nuclear missiles to a rogue state but linked to the events of the breakup of Yugoslavia as a Bosnian Serb leader wants to make a statement.The film is a solid action thriller, some of it is nonsense. The main villain Dusan describes himself as a Serb, a Croat and a Muslim. I have no idea what this meant but it might feel insulting to the survivors of the Bosnian ethnic genocide in the 1990s.However it is a well paced thriller, some of the CGI does look cheap, it appears to be intelligent by mentioning all the current hot spots of the era. There is good chemistry between Kidman and Clooney but their characters are thinly sketched. The film has nothing that makes it outstanding or even memorable.
Johntechwriter
A by-the-numbers actioner with good production values but a lame story. Kidman's character is an in-over-her-head analyst who is saved from her womanly weakness over and over by lanky, devil-may- care scallywag Clooney. Really, it's a ridiculously demeaning portrayal of a woman with authority, and Kidman adds not a whit of irony to her role.The plodding pace drains the energy from Hollywood's best-quality visuals and stunt work. Clooney's charm isn't enough to offset the wooden performances by those around him. Everybody marches in lock step through a series of ever more unlikely developments, toward a conclusion that can't come a minute too soon.This movie reflects its producers' contempt for its audience by giving us the clichés and stereotypes we've seen a hundred times before, and not a whit of originality to offset them. It takes a special kind of cynicism to waste this much money and talent, but director Mimi Leder is down to the job.
Robert Durant
Mimi Leder's "The Peacemaker" tells the story of a group of terrorists who hijack a train carrying a payload of nuclear warheads traveling through southern Russia. They set one of the nukes off as a getaway diversion, making everyone else believe the blast was an accident. However a nuclear weapons specialist and an army colonel begin to piece together the truth and before you know it they are hot on the trail of the rest of the warheads while a larger attack in a highly populated area is being planned. Every time I watch this movie I can't help but feel like this is a poor man's 007 movie. It's almost as if this were the kind of plot they would have suggested to Pierce Brosnan at the time but he turns it down and they get George Clooney for the lead role and just change the characters. It's not a particularly bad movie but it does have its flaws, notably in the special effects in some scenes. Clooney is OK as Tom Devoe, sometimes he comes off a little too arrogant and cocky for his character. Now on the other hand you have Nicole Kidman playing the weapons specialist out of D.C. and I don't know why but she is absolutely gorgeous in this film. She is definitely more credible as her character than Denise Richards was in "The World Is Not Enough". There is a some good drama to the story particularly from the man behind the terrorist plot, you get a sense of what could drive the guy to do what he is doing. Overall not a bad movie, it's a good way to kill a few hours on a weekend and it gives you a good reason to think about Nicole Kidman as a redhead.
M MALIK
Nicole kid-man was so sexy but clooney was looking gay & a wannabe tough guy.Russians are portrayed as bad guys again in this who wants to launch a nuclear attack on USA but why because the main bad guy got betrayed & wanted revenge .i really don't care for stuff like this anymore because the only movie i lover of bombs is broken arrow of john travolta.the climax of the movie is bad & rushed & you'll see why i love movies but this ant-Russian & all that stuff is gone too far.after 9-11 a lot of films came out with more concepts like the plus point was that they have Afghanistan & Pakistan & terrorist groups stories & osama you know what i am saying.i cant understand clooney this guy acts the same in every film & his hairstyle also never change.my rating of the peacemaker is 2/10 watch only for Nicole kid-man.
