Deterrence (2000)
Directed by Rod Lurie
The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.
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This is a risky move to make, especially for a filmmaker like Lurie whose most effective projects to date—such as the political thrillers “Deterrence” (1999) and “Nothing But the Truth” (2008)—have largely consisted of scenes revolving around dialogue instead of physical action, but the end result is undeniably striking.
A film critic turned filmmaker who made his reputation behind the camera with a pair of talky political dramas, “Deterrence” and “The Contender,” Lurie similarly found himself in the mush pot after his ill-advised 2011 remake of Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” — which is hardly a place of strength from which to stage either a career comeback or an epic homage to real-life heroism.
Taking up the film’s final, high-tension hour, the Battle of Kamdesh represents Lurie’s finest achievement to date as a director, up there with Deterrence and The Contender (and enough to forgive him for his misguided remake of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs.)
In director Lurie's first feature film "Deterrence", he offered us a different kind of political potboiler that I thought was plodding and claustophobic where an unlikely presidential figure (as played by Kevin Pollak) had to face the pressure of his convictions.
Although we've seen that sort of story many times before, that apparently hasn't deterred director Rod Lurie ("The Contender," "Deterrence") from revisiting the genre - albeit with a twist - in "The Last Castle."
October 19, 2001 | Before he found respectable employment as a film director (The Contender, Deterrence), Rod Lurie made his living as a film critic.
The movie is the work of Rod Lurie, a political junkie whose previous movies raised intriguing questions: In "Deterrence," the president was stuck in a small-town diner as he tried to decide whether to drop a nuclear bomb.