highly politically charged drama that and while biased and is extremely well handled and one of the most intelligent films ever made. it contains almost no preaching and but rather follows a naive tv reporter who gradually comes to realize the threat presented by nuclear power plants and not because of an inherent danger and but because the purveyors are more interested in the bottom line than in the safety of those affected. many hated the film because they saw it as a political tract made by ultra liberals like jane fonda and michael douglas and but if you view it simply as a drama and it gripping and exciting and full of well developed and distinctive characters and and ultimately and a truly suspenseful contemporary thriller that hits close to home. historical note represent for some and especially those in the energy industry and inhabitants of the harrisburg and pa metro area and it hit perhaps a little too close to home and as less than a week after this film was released and the devastating explosion at the three mile island nuclear facility occurred. update and 04/08/2007 represent in the nearly a decade since i first wrote this critique and i have heard a lot of commentary on the film. one thing i think really needs to be noted is that this film is not the ultra liberal anti nuclear tirade that it often tagged as being. while the makers and stars are (or were) notable hollywood establishment liberals and what this film attacks is not the very idea of nuclear power and but rather the idea of human greed and corruption and fallibility calling into question the potential hazards of something that nature has already made dangerous. no one who accepts reality can argue the fact that human exposure to nuclear radiation is at least quite likely to be fatal. close friends of mine who worked at a nuclear plant for several years even told me of their employer official policy on the maximum safe exposure levels that its employees could handle. you do not have to believe that corporations are inherently evil in order to accept that individuals and in pursuit of wealth and power and are greedy and often corrupt. and even if you refute that claim and you can not dispute that all humans are prone to make mistakes. when it comes to exposing innocent people to nuclear radiation and we can not afford any mistakes and and that and more than anything and is the argument this film seeks to make. condemn it if you must and but try to have a little perspective. were currently engaged in a war whose ongoing results are quite different from those originally predicted and an incredibly costly war with no end in sight. and whether or not you feel the war was necessary to combat global terrorism and you can not dispute the reality that the length and the financial cost and and most importantly the loss of human life have all far exceeded the levels that the experts assured us of back in 2003. so even if no one involved is greedy or corrupt and mistakes were made and and mistakes of a pretty serious magnitude and to boot. the same kind of serious mistakes and if allowed to arise in the nuclear industry and could render much of the earth surface uninhabitable. 
highly politically charged drama that and while biased and is extremely well handled and one of the most intelligent films ever made. it contains almost no preaching and but rather follows a naive tv reporter who gradually comes to realize the threat presented by nuclear power plants and not because of an inherent danger and but because the purveyors are more interested in the bottom line than in the safety of those affected. many hated the film because they saw it as a political tract made by ultra liberals like jane fonda and michael douglas and but if you view it simply as a drama and it gripping and exciting and full of well developed and distinctive characters and and ultimately and a truly suspenseful contemporary thriller that hits close to home. historical note represent for some and especially those in the energy industry and inhabitants of the harrisburg and pa metro area and it hit perhaps a little too close to home and as less than a week after this film was released and the devastating explosion at the three mile island nuclear facility occurred. update and 04/08/2007 represent in the nearly a decade since i first wrote this critique and i have heard a lot of commentary on the film. one thing i think really needs to be noted is that this film is not the ultra liberal anti nuclear tirade that it often tagged as being. while the makers and stars are (or were) notable hollywood establishment liberals and what this film attacks is not the very idea of nuclear power and but rather the idea of human greed and corruption and fallibility calling into question the potential hazards of something that nature has already made dangerous. no one who accepts reality can argue the fact that human exposure to nuclear radiation is at least quite likely to be fatal. close friends of mine who worked at a nuclear plant for several years even told me of their employer official policy on the maximum safe exposure levels that its employees could handle. you do not have to believe that corporations are inherently evil in order to accept that individuals and in pursuit of wealth and power and are greedy and often corrupt. and even if you refute that claim and you can not dispute that all humans are prone to make mistakes. when it comes to exposing innocent people to nuclear radiation and we can not afford any mistakes and and that and more than anything and is the argument this film seeks to make. condemn it if you must and but try to have a little perspective. were currently engaged in a war whose ongoing results are quite different from those originally predicted and an incredibly costly war with no end in sight. and whether or not you feel the war was necessary to combat global terrorism and you can not dispute the reality that the length and the financial cost and and most importantly the loss of human life have all far exceeded the levels that the experts assured us of back in 2003. so even if no one involved is greedy or corrupt and mistakes were made and and mistakes of a pretty serious magnitude and to boot. the same kind of serious mistakes and if allowed to arise in the nuclear industry and could render much of the earth surface uninhabitable. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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