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| Oh wow, this is some Clancy-tier schlock. |
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| Watched it subbed and with original Japanese dub. This movie really is laughable and ridiculous in how uninformed one can be. It's like someone was trying to write a story in a realistic setting, with nothing but speculative yellow press as his only source of information about the current situation in the world. I laughed my ass off when they started with that claptrap about the Soviets wanting the war and actually advancing first on all fronts at once, having dwindling supplies of food and oil to the point of having to import it, the "harsh conditions" etc. It wasn't just untrue, at no point in history did it come anywhere near that. Oh, and of course, Kutuzov—a top-ranking Soviet official who is as religious as the Pope himself. That goes beyond even the yellow press scope, I really have to wonder how could one ever come up with something like that. The movie was in production since 1980, which means the Islamic revolution of 1979 already took place. How could they envision Middle East in the NATO after that is a mystery to me. Of course, they couldn't leave without making the rookie SF mistake either: in the end Wataru enters a spaceship through a hole and suddenly, mysteriously starts hearing the command center from the terminal through the airless space and his helmet. At least the score was nice and everything not directly related to the plot looked convincing. It's a shame the controversies of the time weren't enough to choke this movie off. It really is one big blob of rearmament propaganda. The real Soviets had never had nearly as much of resources and capabilities as shown here, among the miniscule blatant military autism discrepancies that I omitted because that'd be too nerdy for anyone to read. |