«Jeremy's problems are he he packages this with
serious claptrap - if you look for example at our defence policy, we'll renew Trident, but of course we won't ha...
In setting up the rudiments of this situation, the film can't be faulted, at least on the level of its script (Rafael Yglesias adapting his own novel), direction (Peter Weir returning to a relatively
serious mode after the
claptrap of Dead Poets Society and Green Card), and performances (Bridges and Perez give uncharacteristic, highly arresting portraits of people in a sustained state of shock).