it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

For most other viewers, this film may be a dramatisation of a possible event, one which thankfully has not happened. For me, it is the stuff of legends! One of the interviewees is my father, several of the others were family friends I grew up with who were members of the Gravesend Theatre Guild.The majority of this film hit the floor thanks to the scissors of the censor, it was originally planned as a two hour long film, but at the time many scenes were seen as too horrifying. Scenes showing people hanging themselves rather than carrying on (the shot having been set up with a stuntman fixed to the lamppost and the director called "Lunch") have all been described to me over the past forty-five years. I would love to see the full director's cut.If you are looking for what would happen today in a nuclear war, don't watch this. If you are looking for what would have happened in the 60's if the "Reds" had pushed the button, watch this film. Watch this film and thank whichever deity you pray to that it didn't happen.

The War Game (1965)The ongoing horrific black and white "footage" of nuclear war preparations and aftermath in Britain is gripping and terrifying. I was a kid in this era, the 1960s, and remember only the official side of it--the government warnings, the bomb shelter information--but I've retained enough of the scariness to really get this inside. You don't need to be fifty to feel the genuine pain of these people. Yet you have to remind yourself, over and over, that this is all fiction, that it's a movie, that it's just a projection of likely effects. The more amazing aspect is that the movie concentrates on areas on the far fringes of the bomb's explosion (6 to 20 miles away), and leaves the closer damages, the total annihilation, to your imagination.It's a short movie, and an amazing one. There's nothing like this, for sure, and I think it's should be required viewing for anyone wondering about the current threats of atomic warfare in a dozen different places. It's too real, and it's avoidable, I believe, if everyone does the right thing. Amazing.

I saw this film, as a teenager, at my Grammar School Film Club. It is about the build up to, and the effects of, a nuclear war. The only details that I can remember, and which scared me are; 1. In the event of a nuclear attack on Briain there were (are only four aircraft on full-time standby by to protect the whole country.2. In the film it is the West (the good guys) who make the first nuclear strike.I honestly don't know whether I'd want to watch it again - now over four decades later. Why does IMDb insst on a minimum of ten lines? I could ramble on, and probably will, but it will add nothing to what I've already written. Such people are bad enough in the Civil Service. Why should we have to put up with them here?

If you like horror films, you will absolutely love this film.It was made for BBC television, but deemed too horrendous to show. It was later shown in theaters and won an Oscar for best documentary film in 1966.You cannot tell that you are not watching real live news instead of a film. It shows not only the horror of nuclear war, but the fact that the government is not prepared in the least to cope with the evacuation and damage.It has some really horrible scenes of death, but the most terrifying aspect of the film is the naivety and total lack of realistic expectations. The aftermath is a testament to the stupidity of nuclear weapons.The film draws on the aftermath of Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki for realism.One has to realize that this was 1965 before we reached the level of weapons we have today.This is a film that should be seen by everyone.