Review – The War Game

If you're watching this in the 21st century and you've never seen it before, you need to be prepared to cut it a little slack. This Peter Watkins "mocumentary" about a nuclear strike on England is intensely preachy and more than a little rough around the edges. But it's important to remember that when he made this movie Watkins was inventing this method of storytelling. Further, the grim details of nuclear war weren't as widely known or officially acknowledged as they are now. Thus the folks who made this deserve to have their work appreciated in context, and if you can accept it for what it was originally designed to be then you'll walk away with a much more favorable impression. Worth seeing