This Is Not a Test

It has always intrigued me how cinema reflects its times--nothing demonstrates that to me more passionately than the doomsday scenario of nuclear apocalypse in movies, particularly during the times of extreme political crisis between the USA and then-USSR in both the 60's and 80's. 'This Is Not a Test' was director Fredric Gadette's lone work as director, producer and scriptwriter, and he's abl...

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drystyx ★ 9.0

16 de maig 2023

KING OF THE SWITCH ENDINGS A highway patrolman stops a few cars for an emergency. "This is Not a Test" refers to that emergency. It isn't a test. It's a real nuclear attack. A motley group of seemingly ordinary people deal with the fact that they are in what they consider "Ground Zero", smack dab between some obvious targets. Except there's a wild card in the mix. One of the people in this stor...

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CinemaSerf ★ 5.0

19 de nov. 2024

I suppose the writing was on the wall for this with the opening titles. No mention at all of the acting "talent" but at least four of Frederic Gadette who appears to have done all but make the coffee. The plot sees a single police officer "Colter" (Seamon Glass) being charged with operating a roadblock on a remote highway. That's my first problem. He is stop both directions at the same spot - ther...

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