Wrong Is Right (1982)
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
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A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies. Wrong Is Right is a Comedy, Drama, Thriller but it also has a black kind of humor that is totally the turn it off point for it. Just the first few seconds of the movie is what took me off the experience and not even Sean Connery's terrific talent can save a film that was bad from the start. Overall i'm sorry but this gets a big F from me..
Richard Brooks directed this seemingly forgotten satire that stars Sean Connery as successful TV newsman Patrick Hale, who is hot on the trail of a big news story involving stolen nuclear warheads hidden in suitcases and international terrorism, leading from the Pentagon to the White House, where President Lockwood(played by George Grizzard) and General Wombat(played by Robert Conrad) try desperately to keep a lid on things, while Hale suspects a cover-up, where it all ends atop the World Trade Center... Crazy satire seems like a combination of "Network" and "Dr. Strangelove", but falls well short of those classics. This may be prescient in some ways, but it little matters in misfired comedy. Interesting cast though!
It's incredible that this movie was made in 1982. The writer must have had a crystal ball. And that last part about the suitcases with atomic devices and how their existence is used to justify an US attack on a certain country ... Though in this case they did have the bomb but had decided not to use it yet. But the CIA puts dummy suitcases on top of a building in New York (was it the World Trade Center ? I can't recall). Anyway, this film should be shown in US public schools. It really addresses all the subjects we are dealing with today, and it's amazing how they could get it so right. Abroad I think people have a more cynical point of view about American intervention in other countries so they wouldn't find it so educational.
I wish this movie was more readily available..it IS prophetic.I saw it nearly twenty years ago and have never forgotten it.Connery puts in one of his best performances as the cynical, jaded, journalist.I would urge all students of US foreign policy to rent-and analyze-this film