Countdown to Zero

A throwback to the 80s 'doomentaries', it's not so much a documentary as a 90 minute anti-nuclear campaign video. Because it does have some valid points, it is a shame that Walker seems more hell-bent on frighteníng us into submission, rather than trusting that the facts alone will convince the audience. Very amateurish use of text and quotes, and a complete disregard for the argument that nuclear weapons might also prevent war, makes this a lesser film than the subject matter it portrays.

One part American propaganda. One part scare tactics. One part explaining why nuclear bombs are bad (herp derp). Mix together until subpar docucumentary emerges. Serve to chumps.

Nukes... aren't good?

Realist political scientists believe that the last 70 years of global peace have been (at least partially) the result of nuclear deterrence. Reasonable people disagree on this point, but in order to disagree you have to bring the subject up. This documentary isn't interested in bringing the subject up. Oh, and by the way, somehow this movie got Carter, McNamara, Gorbachev, Baker, Brzezinski, Musharraf, and Blair all on camera, and somehow failed to ask one interesting question.

Had to turn it off because of the disgusting propaganda in this so called documentary...

"An activist doc this is not, even if a perfunctory conclusion, in which a score of difficult to achieve solutions to the nuclear problem are floated in rapid succession, represents a feeble attempt at encouragement." - Andrew Schenker