The Peacemaker

Reviewed by: Joe Blenkle

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Cast: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman

Studio: Dreamworks Pictures

Director: Mimi Leder

Screenplay: Michael Schiffer

MPAA Rating: R

Release Date: Sept. 26, 1997

Running Time: 124 Minutes

	The Peacemaker photo is ©1997 DreamWorks Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

    George Clooney has been a very busy man lately. Between his regular TV series - ER - and starring as Batman, Clooney found time to do an excellent action-adventure film - The Peacemaker.
    Clooney stars as Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe, an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Special Forces, who, along with Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), is assigned to find out who stole nuclear weapons from a train in Russia.
    The Russian military officer who headed the scheme set off one of the nuclear weapons to cover his tracks, but Devoe and Kelly still manage to trace the whereabouts of the stolen weapons and recover them before they leave Russian territory.
    But, one of the terrorists who set up the theft escapes with a nuclear weapon and is bent on smuggling it into the United States with plans of setting it off in New York City.
    The Peacemaker turns into a top-notch and suspenseful action film much like the best of the James Bond series of movies.
    Clooney and Kidman never really develop an onscreen chemistry, but still manage to pull off a splendid performance despite this. You keep expecting a romance to develop between the two - and it does at the end - but it leaves you with a feeling of not working and being a bit forced.
    It should have developed sooner of been left out entirely.
    Still, The Peacemaker is an enjoyable film with a lot of suspense and action and is very worth the price of admission.
    It may also be noted this film was the first effort from the new DreamWorks Pictures.

   It leaves me anxiously awaiting their next two scheduled efforts - Mouse Hunt (Dec. 25) and Amistad, also scheduled for a December release. Return to The Movie Corner