The
Peacemaker
Movie
Review
The Peacemaker is a 1997 American political action thriller film
directed by Mimi Leder, starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin
Müller-Stahl, Marcel Lures, and Alexander Baluyev. The story takes place around
the world, and the film is based on the 1997 book One Point Safe, about the
state of Russia's nuclear arsenal.
The story of the film follows a moderate push for peace in the
ongoing Yugoslav wars, who is assassinated outside a church celebrating Eastern
Orthodox baptism in Bale, Bosnia.
Ten R-36M2 Mod at the missile base in Kartali, Russia. The
5,550-750 kiloton MIRV nuclear warheads, part of an SS-18 Satan ICBM, are
loaded onto a train for transport to a disposal facility.
However, Russian Army General Alexander Kodoroff along with a
rogue Spetsnaz unit, kills the soldiers on the transport train and transfers
the nine battleships to another train. Kodoroff activates a timer on the
remaining battleship and dispatches the transport as it collides with the
passenger train. Minutes later, the 500-kiloton warship exploded, killing
thousands of civilians and delaying the investigation into the crash.
The outbreak immediately draws the attention of the US
government. National Security Council's Nuclear Trafficking Panel Chairperson
said that Chechen terrorists are behind the incident. Dr. Julia Kelly believes.
US Army Ranger Lt. Col. Thomas DeVoe interrupted her briefing and claimed the
incident was staged to cover up the hijacking of the warships. A call to Devoe's
friend and Russian ally, FSB Colonel Dmitri Vertikoff, lent credence to his
theory and appointed him as Kelly's military liaison.
Kelly and Devoe secure information on a terrorist's smuggling
operation through an Austrian trucking company operating as a front for the
Russian mafia. They meet Vertikoff in Vienna and then take signs to meet
Schumacher, who arranges Russian trucking. After Devoe tortures Schumacher for
information, he and Kelly leave the building and get into Vertikoff's car. They
are chased through Vienna by Schumacher's men, who kill Vertikoff while paying
the bribe. Devoe shoots the attackers and runs away, but finds himself and
Kelly in pursuit. A wild run through the city ensues, followed by a fire. Devoe
and Kelly escaped unharmed.
According to the trucking company, these nuclear weapons are
going to Iran via Azerbaijan. When American spy satellites place a truck in a
refugee traffic jam in Dagestan, Devoe uses a ruse to identify it. This
information was passed on to Russian authorities in hopes of stopping the
transfer to Iran. Russian troops stop Kodoroff at a roadblock, but he and his
men kill the soldiers.
Devoe leads an airborne special operations team from a US base
in Turkey to stop them. Denied access to Russian airspace, one of the three
special ops helicopters is shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile, but
the Khodoroff truck finds the remaining two. They fire missiles that disable
Kodoroff's truck, then engage in a firefight, killing Kodoroff and securing the
warships. A surviving member of the team, an American-educated Pakistani
nuclear scientist, reveals that a warship was dispatched with an operative before
intercepting the truck.
Trucking company information leads IFOR to Sarajevo address.
Inside is a videocassette of Dusan Gavric, a Bosnian who claims no allegiance
to any particular faction in the Yugoslav wars, but blames other countries for
supplying weapons to all sides in the war. Kelly's further analysis of the
trucking company documents was conducted at the UN in New York City. Gavric
tells a meeting at headquarters that he wants to drop a bomb. Gavric arrives in
Manhattan with the Bosnian diplomatic delegation.
A flashback shows Gavric seeking revenge for the deaths of his
wife and daughter, who were killed in Sarajevo during a sniper attack. He and
his brother are later found by Devoe and Kelly. When his brother is killed by
Devoe, a wounded and enraged Gavric flees into a massive school found in the
church's sanctuary. Devoe and Kelly confront a suicidal Gavric, knowing that
the bomb will go off in minutes. With only a few seconds to spare, Dr. Kelly is
able to remove a portion of the bomb's explosive lens shell and stop the
primary explosion from establishing critical mass in the plutonium core. Devoe
and Kelly dive out the window when the primary explosives detonate, destroying
the church. Kelly's manipulation of the warhead prevents it from detonating
into a nuclear explosion. After the nuclear incident, Kelly watched a swimming
lap in a pool. Devoe stops by and asks her for a drink, which she accepts.
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