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Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Leslie Hope
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Meltdown
A small group of ex-American soldiers pose as terrorists and seize a nuclear power plant and threaten to blow it up. All of the soldiers are dying from cancer caused by uranium poisoning.   They attack the plant as a warning, to show how easily it can be done. One of the soldiers sets real explosives and plans to actually blow up the plant. When a rogue security guard finds out, the soldier quickly kills her. With the help of an FBI agent, a small team of soldiers storm the plant and take down the terrorists allowing only one minor explosion and saving the plant.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%



Time/Era of Movie: - present (2000-2010)
Spying & Terrorists Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
The terrorist enemy is... - terrorist group

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - short/standard straight (man)
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type - average (woman)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - infantry soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - bald
Hair type - (man) bald
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
City? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel... - concerned
How many deaths in film? - 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets? - 4 ()
Kind of violence: - nuclear/unconventional war - mission to rescue - mission to destroy something - mission to protect something - mental battles - guns
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Any profanity? - None
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