The Sum of All Fears (review)

The Sum of All Fears (review)

Ah, the wondrous spectacle that is Hollywood.

Only Hollywood could produce a film that features the main characters getting injured in a nuclear blast and then show them considerably later giving peace speeches and having picnics.

In Hollywood, people get blown up, but there is no such thing as radiation sickness - certainly not for the heroes. True, the film shows some sort of M*A*S*H facility and some burned people, but there is nothing shown at any point that would indicate that anyone ever gets poisoned by radiation.

An atomic blast is just another car rolling down the hill and exploding, only bigger.

Obviously SAF didn't get any technical advice. Otherwise they would have presented the reality that many thousands of people - and certainly the blast survivors - would have died of radiation later.

Not that the film is a total loss. It certainly is realistic in its portrayal of the supine US rule by "Israel", a "country" that is as fictional as the film itself. The plutonium source for the bomb comes from a zionazi nuke that was made from material stolen from a US nuclear power plant. The zionazis are, of course, excused: THEY didn't steal the plutonium, the CIA did - and then GAVE it to them.

And the film is realistic when it displays the total hatred of Russians for Muslim Chechnya.

Apart from depicting the correct relationship between the US and the zionazis, there is one satisfying scene where a zionazi pilot crashes and explodes in the desert. I couldn't restrain myself in the theater and shouted "YES!" which actually received a positive responsive of laughter and some applause from other members of the audience. That scene alone was worth the price of admission and the only reason that the film deserves a ranking with any stars at all. One does wonder, though, whether the zionazis in real life would have left one of their atomic bombs lying around the desert for 29 years.

The characterization of Arabs certainly is flawed, although not in the usual aggressive terrorist way. The only significant Arab action in the film features a Bedouin who sells an atomic bomb a la Dead Sea Scrolls for US$400 and is profoundly grateful to the buyer for this vast sum. So now Arabs aren't portrayed as terrorists, only as idiots. Such is "political correctness" in zionist occupied Hollywood.

From an action viewpoint, SAF is a lot of fun despite its implausible plot line, and if that's all you look for in a film then you'll rate it higher than I do, but for me it was the theater's air conditioning system that made it a worthwhile cinematic experience.

Rating: *