A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American ‘Vindicator’ bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.
This is a great Cold War movie. It’s released in the same year as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and it’s like it’s more serious counterpart. Treating the same issue, the first moments of what can be an all-out thermo-nuclear war, the movie directed by Sidney Lumet takes a more direct and serious note on foreign policy, internal affairs and war in a world that used to revolve around two super-powers. The movie is filled with brilliant famous actors put in greatly-written roles.
Today the world power is no longer divided by the Iron Curtain, but the lessons of Failsafe have yet to be learned.
In a nuclear war, everyone loses.
Six popcorns and flies into the Movie Vault.
