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Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Leslie Hope
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Meltdown |
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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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| Analysis of Meltdown |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
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 (a fair amount)
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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