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DirkH’s review published on Letterboxd:
This review may contain spoilers.
Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.102
Apparently the script for this film was considered for the Twilight Zone film. And that's exactly the type of film this is, it's the kind that could have started with: 'Submitted for your approval: A man picks up a ringing payphone and hears things he shouldn't hear, the world is about to end because a nuclear war will start today'.
Twilight Zone episodes always require a healthy dose of suspended disbelief and this film is no different. If you allow yourself to go along with the story, with the frantic attempts of Anthony Edwards to get to his girlfriend after he hears the news, you're in for a very entertaining ride.
What I loved about it is how slowly but surely you're drawn into it and how gradually things go from bad to worse, with not only the threat of the approaching nuclear weapon, but also the increasing chaos as the news becomes public domain.
And the ending, as cheesy as it is, it kinda got to me which I didn't see coming.