By Dawn's Early Light Details

Powers Boothe gives another powerful performance in this effective dramatisation of what might happen to bring about the Third World War. Like 1995's Crimson Tide, this successfully poses the nuclear threat question, and, even though you could only really have one of two outcomes (and how many world wars have you heard about lately?), director Jack Sholder (The Hidden, A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge) manages to keep the tension building, helped by a solid cast which includes James Earl Jones, Martin Landau and Rip Torn.