Yippee Ki-Yay . . . .
Not bad for a movie of this kind, but the entirely
uncontested background political assumptions are annoying.
It is certainly not true that North Korea would crush South
Korea if we didn’t defend that non-communist regime.
It is not true that Russia and China would go on a military rampage
if we withdrew the protection of the 7th Fleet from our allies in
the Far East and Oceania.
It is not true that if we stop playing globocop the whole
world will quickly go straight to hell.
Also, it’s a bit weird that the script has Mike Banning, the
character here standing in for the John McClane of the Die Hard films, save the
US and maybe the world from the cowardice and stupidity of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Vice President, and the President.
And the immediate willingness of the Speaker of the House as
acting president, introduced at the start of the movie as a definite hawk on
Korea, to surrender the South to the North and withdraw the 7th
fleet at the cost of a Russian and Chinese rampage to save the life of one guy,
the captive president of the US, is also weird.
Just weird.
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