Review – Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Up until the Oval Office yakkity yack gets started, this is actually a fairly awesome action movie. A team led by a rogue ex-general (Burt Lancaster) seizes a nuclear missile complex and threatens to launch the weapons unless their demands are met. They want money. They want a clean getaway. I get that. But then they demand public disclosure of a document that will expose the government’s real motives behind the Vietnam War. Judging by the amount of screen time devoted to it, the Daniel Ellsberg crap is intended to be the main focus of the picture. But even back in 1977 this was fairly well trampled ground, certainly nowhere near as interesting a premise as blackmailers with warheads. And the two make an awkward graft. Why would a guy be so obsessed with the American people learning the truth that he’d be willing to kill everyone in America (and Russia as well) just to prove his point? Mildly amusing