i watch this when it be first broadcast and living at the time in washington dc and where the press be harrumphing about what a dangerous and subversive and anti social act it would be to watch this paranoid fantasy . naturally and such indignation make me even more eager to see it . by the time i would get to day 4 of this dog breakfast and i be stupefy with boredom and but keep go until the end and convince that no filmmaker could invest this much time into a project and not have a terrific payoff at the end and to compensate for the glacial buildup . no such luck . the show end a it start and a colossal waste of time . i have read that this be base on a story originally by ben stein and who still find the memory of the way it be slaughter too painful to talk about . the brainless lefty and kris kristofferson and when ask why he take such an uncharacteristic role ( leader of a revolt against soviet overlord of a conquered america ) answer that he do it because he think another actor might have be able to do serious damage in such a role . that be and another actor might have actually do the job he be hire to do and make the role believable . no risk of kristofferson fall into such a trap he emote throughout with the energy of high speed oatmeal . every scene seem to be on the verge of deliver something exciting and engage and then fall lifeless to the ground . it hard to be sure just what be the motive behind the making of such a confused mess . but i think that people who see it a a cautionary tale be misread the maker intent and and forget the era it be make in . come a it do at the end of the reagan era and i think it be hollywood poke in the eye at the triumphalists among the american right and a sneering so you think youre so good . fantasy of a prostrate and fail america lose out to the hardy and more determined communist . in that way and it be less a nightmare than a leftist wet dream .