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Synopsis: Two trains crash somewhere in Russia, one carrying a nuclear payload. A nuclear explosion follows the crash and the world is on alert... However, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly doesn't think it was an accident... Special Operations Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe doesn't think so either... Together they must unravel a conspiracy that goes from Europe to New York, to stop a terrorist who has no demands...
Genre: Action, Thriller
Director(s): Mimi Leder
Production: Dreamworks
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
39%
R
Year:
1997
124 min
2,286 Views


talking points for the President.

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We need to know who might want

to detonate a nuke on Russian soil.

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General, I'll need a military liaison

with Russian contacts.

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- You got it.

- Oh, and General,

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Make sure he's willing

to take orders from a woman.

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'(Woman) Colonel Devoe,

looking at events of May 18.'

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You were arrested in a bar brawl

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in a Moscow disco

called...Night crawler?

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Yes, ma'am, that's correct.

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You were in the company

of a prostitute

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and a Russian army colonel named

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Dimitri Vertikoff?

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Yes, ma'am. Dimitri and I went into

the bar to try and buy some nerve gas

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off this ex-KGB guy that we had heard

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was selling black market

surplus munitions to Iraq.

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The fight started because

we'd run up a bit of a bar tab...

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I believe the exact

amount was $5,200?

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Well, we had dinner,

and I bought a couple of rounds.

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colonel Vertikoff

identified the KGB guy,

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and we were able to stop

the nerve gas from getting to Iraq.

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So how do you repay a man like that?

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- Sports utility vehicle?

- That's exactly right.

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Dimitri has a daughter

who likes four-wheeling.

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I know this Ford guy who cut me

a great deal on these Explorers.

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- I like the Bronco better...

- colonel, let's get this straight.

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You spent taxpayers' money

to buy and ship

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a Ford Explorer 8,000 miles

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to the teenage daughter

of a Russian colonel?

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Yes, ma'am.

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Think of it as exporting goodwill.

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(Russian) We never discussed

detonating a bomb.

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If they discovered missing warheads

they would have found us in hours.

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Now it will be days before they even

reach the crash site.

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I hate these new ones.

They don't seem real.

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He looks bug-eyed, deformed.

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They'll have the roads blocked.

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Your Russian is awful. Speak English.

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It was stupid, understand?

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Your friends made this deal,

but this is my operation.

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Don't make me start thinking

I don't need you.

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- They will never let us through.

- 0f course they will.

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Section 21-A,

Nuclear Disaster Protocol.

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One, secure area.

Two, control debris.

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Three, evacuate casualties.

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(Speaks Russian)

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Huh?

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it was stupid.

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(Kelly) ..but they have the know-how

and should not be ruled out.

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And moving on, we come to

Shamil Basayev, a scientist.

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He claims responsibility for placing

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a canister of radioactive caesium

in a park in Moscow last June.

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But his underworld ties suggest he

could be part of a bigger operation.

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Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. chechen leader

since the Russians murdered Dudayev.

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He has threatened to attack

Federation nuclear power plants.

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There are others on our terrorist

list, as outlined in your packet.

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0ur reaction to the crisis

is as follows.

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We have initiated a directive with

the Nuclear Smuggling Group as hub.

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DIA and NR0. You have responsibility

for primary SAT imagery...

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Excuse me, ma'am.

I don't mean to interrupt.

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- Yes?

- Um, these terrorists...

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Have they asked for anything,

a list of demands?

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Russians out of chechnya...?

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No, but it's not unusual for days,

even weeks to go by

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before a claim of responsibility

is made.

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- Yeah.

- Air mob command is...

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Excuse me again. Ma'am. I'm sorry.

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That's a satellite shot of the

trains just before they collided.

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Perhaps you should discuss

Special 0p possibilities?

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Right. General Garnett has Special

0perations command at full alert.

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- Excuse me.

- I'm sorry to keep interrupting.

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You see these blobs right here?

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Those are people jumping off

the train before it crashes.

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Now look at that train.

That's the one with the nuke.

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Nobody's jumpin' off that. Why not?

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They were already dead.

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(Man) How many warheads

were on the train?

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The Russians haven't confirmed yet.

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So we have no idea

of potential yield?

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Are you suggesting

this was a robbery?

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Whoever did this had access to

Russian satellite positioning intel.

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That leaves out your chechen rebels.

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(Murmuring)

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I would like to point out

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that 1,500 people

were killed last night.

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You don't do that unless you want

to make a profound statement.

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Do you know how much a nuke

is worth on the market?

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Michael Schiffer

Michael Schiffer is an American screenwriter, video game writer and film producer. Schiffer is known for such films and video games as Colors, Lean on Me, Crimson Tide, The Four Feathers, The Peacemaker and Call of Duty. more…

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