One of John Frankenheimer's potboilers-for-world-betterment, this one about a tit-for-tat rivalry between a U.S. and a U.S.S.R. colonel (embittered Vietnam vet and embittered Afghanistan vet), which begins as an exchange of snowballs across the Czech border and escalates to the brink of World War III. Well past, that is, the brink of absurdity. (The American is more clearly motivated, or in other words more simple-mindedly motivated, than his counterpart: it's his birthday, and he's been drinking, and he hears that his son's bicycle has been stolen by bullies.) With Roy Scheider and Jurgen Prochnow. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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