A piece of borderline science fiction about a boy who builds an atomic bomb. It fights a losing battle against implausibility, but fights it tenaciously and well. The end result, with a slow build and an accelerating finish, is not at all believable, but hangs together beautifully. Nothing is unaccounted for; nothing taken for granted -- least of all the inattentiveness and indifference to narrative logic so often imputed to the contemporary moviegoer. But to attempt to treat it as anything more than a clever and conscientious construction job, to want to crown it with some sort of anti-nuke rostrum, is only to accentuate the wobble. Christopher Collet, John Lithgow, Cynthia Nixon, and Jill Eikenberry; directed by Marshall Brickman. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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