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Critic Kim Newman
rated 6

...reeks of the charged Americanisms of Tom Clancy with more than a faint aroma of one 007.

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Cast & Crew

Mimi Leder
Director
Blaise Corrigan
As FBI Agent #1
George Clooney
As Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
Nicole Kidman
As Dr. Julia Kelly
Armin Mueller-Stahl
As Dimitri Vertikoff
Holt McCallany
As Mark Appleton
Aleksandr Baluev
As General Aleksandr Kodoroff

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The Peacemaker is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Mimi Leder and starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.Wintry place outsideMoscow).The movie begins with a solemn ceremony at an Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia (outside Sarajevo), where the Bosnian finance minister, a champion of peace in the Yugoslav wars, is assassinated.Colonel Thomas Devoe (Clooney) is a Special Forces intelligence agent who is tasked with capturing the culprits and stopping the sale of the stolen weapons on the Iranian border. Dr. Julia Kelly (Kidman), a nuclear weapons expert who works for the U.S. government, discovers that the accident was actually part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. In Kartaly (Chelyabinsk Oblast), Russia, ten R-36M2 Mod .5, SS-18 Satan ICBM 550–750 kiloton MIRV nuclear warheads are loaded onto trains for transport to dismantling facilities. However;, Russian army General Aleksandr Kodoroff , along with rogue Spetznaz units, kills soldiers on board transport trains and transfers nine warheads to another train.Kodoroff then activates one warhead's timer and sends it on a passenger train collision course; minutes later, it detonates , killing thousands of civilians and delaying international aid in responding to nuclear attacks on two other cities. Lieutenant colonel Thomas Devoe and Dr. julia Kelly team up to stop the group of terrorists from smuggling the stolen weapons into the United States . They track the weapons to the Iranian border, where they engage in a high-stakes showdown with the terrorists . Devoe and Kelly successfully retrieve most of their stolen missiles , but one terrorist escapes with a nuke in his backpack . They fail to prevent the last nuclear bomb from det exploding i n New York City , causing immense destruction and loss of life . The film ends with Devoue and Kelly helping survivors amidst the ruins as they realize their mission's gravity . Devoe delivers a speech about the importance of working together as people and nations to avoid conflicts .

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The Peacemaker was released in theaters on September 26, 1997.