poorly do political actioner . badly photograph and act and and direct . every single scene be underlighted and include those very few that be shoot during the daytime . it doesn not matter what the location be . at an important conference in the white house and no light be on and and the only available lighting be a gloomy blue that be filter through a few window . the primier of china conduct an earth shatter phone conversation under condition of such intense chiaroscuro that he should be contemplate a bust of homer in a rembrandt painting . honest . it a if he have a tiny spotlight on his face and be otherwise in total darkness . the slow motion death be by now obligatory in any ill think out movie . roy scheider and maria conchita alonzo do well by their role and but scheider be rarely on screen . the other performance be dismissable . there be a pretty oriental woman in a short tight skirt who tot a gun and be right out of a bond movie who accent suggest a childhood spend in basset and nebraska and and who should have remain the model she probably start out a . whoever play the survive secret service agent aboard the cruise ship be probably pick for the part because he look most like johnny depp and not because of any display of talent . the chinese villain and represent both taiwan and mainland china and hiss and grin a they threaten the hero . the script be pretty awful and recycle from other and good film . there be a lot of shoot aboard the ship and practically everyone wind up mincemeat . two third of the way through and the ship explode into the expected series of fireball . then the movie split into two related part . part one and another shootout and this time in a waterfront warehouse . part two and an exchange between the vice president and now act president and and the oily chinese premiere and lift out of both dr. strangelove and fail safe . we unwittingly launch our missile . they launch theirs in retaliation . we can not convince them that our launch be accidental and even though we offer to help them destroy our own missile . there be even the george c. scott or walter matthau general who argue that their nucular armory can not match ours so we should hit them with everything we have get . more fireball . the end come none too soon .