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source: The Coldest Game

In a half a dozen scenes an actor speaking English says something nonsensical. It's clear that the screenwriter was not a native English speaker. In fact, except for some native English speaking actors, like Pullman -- who was painful to watch in this mess -- there were no native English speakers. The attempt to tie this movie to the Cuban Missile crisis was another miss. A total mess and an embarrassing turn for Bill Pullman.

I just finished The Coldest Game, loving this Cold War Suspenseful Spy Film that did fail to entertain. Great work from Pole Director Kosmicki and lead man Bill Pullman on the top of their games. Being the main character into alcoholism, the story takes us on situations all too familiar to me as my father was for many years an alcoholic, a disease both psychological and physical. It is true that for those of suffer of that, some alcohol in their system help them behave "normal." Without that liquid, they are just like in hell. The political-historical background, i loved it as I was born in 1961, i remember what was living during the Cold War, which ended in 1991 with the breaking down of the Berlin Wall. It is true that the world was always in danger of a nuclear war between the two super powers, and i like the way this was stressed throughout the film. I give Coldest Game an 8. yes, its high. but i think it deserve it. it was entertaining.. i love this kind of moves, and i would recommend you to give it a try.

The coldest game was bright at first but extinguished before the middle of the road. I love spy thrillers but I would hardly call this one a thriller. I watched coldest game after midnight and it was so uncaptivating that I fell asleep. There was no real mystery, no tension, no brillant plot twists and nothing. The whole show was about how evil(and stupid) Russia is. Even the ending credits is using every opportunity to discredit enemy. It's acceptable to use movies as political arsenal but at least do it in a proper and intelligent way. There are tons of movies that have accomplished this like Life is beautiful, Schindlers List, Piano and etc. The way you represent the russian chess champion was funny. An ordinary man watching this movie would think his IQ is below 90. At least show some respect to master chess players. There is decent chess movie 'Pawn Sacrifice' that you could take as an example. And netflix keep insulting our intelligence and doing shows/movies like this and Disney+ will swallow you like a little fish. Long story short this movie is a complete no brainer. There are tons of tv shows and movies that would give you a better 2 hours.

Who either produces or shows a movie where there are many gaps which are a few minutes long and happens throughout the movie where the viewer can see some drama is going on within the discussion but it's in a foreign language? I'm not sure if the movie was produced that way or Netflix was too lazy or just didn't have the capability to offer subtitles during the long dialogs in Russian. It left me angry, frustrated, and bored saying to myself, "finish already so I can get back into this movie". I'm not talking about a few words or even a sentence in Russian. There were dialogs important to the story which I had to sit frustrated because I knew what was being said was important to the story. I would have probably given this move 8 stars but I can give stars for much of a movie I could not understand.

Honestly, I didn't think the studio credits at the beginning were ever going to end.... 1 minute and 30 seconds! Absolutely bizarre!

Such a let-down. The trailer gave me high hopes especially seeing Bill Pullman in there, but the film was something completly different.

This is a spy thriller set during the Cuban missile crisis, and centred around a fictional chess match between the Soviet and US chess champions in Warsaw. The US player is indisposed at the last minute, and the Americans substitute the last US player to beat him in a game, a college maths professor with a drink problem, played by Bill Pullman, who no longer plays chess. It transpires that the CIA have an interest in the match, with a clandestine meeting set up. But who can be trusted? Bill Pullman is a good actor and does his best with the material, but the plot is pretty thin, the kind of thing you might see in a single episode of a TV series. There are also some irritating errors. One CIA person says that they know Russians have sent ships to Cuba but were "too small" to carry nuclear warheads. This is ludicrous, as. a nuclear warhead measures maybe three feet by one, and weighs about 100 kg. It would fit in a canoe, never mind a cargo ship. On the chess front, I am probably being picky as I play chess quite a bit, but there are also several annoying aspects. The person who oversees the game is an "arbiter", not a "judge", and players do not pass draw offers via the arbiter, they just ask the other player. I understand that for film reasons the players are playing their moves unnaturally fast, but near the start the Pullman character says that the opening will "come down to the Italian game or the Rousseau defence" after the Russian's first move is revealed. This is absurd, as the Italian game is somewhat rare at grandmaster level, and the Rousseau opening is extremely obscure and would never be played at really top level. As for someone who hasn't played chess for a couple of decades beating the top Soviet player, that SI extremely implausible. Even Garry Kasparov, former world champion and arguably the best player of all time, struggled to perform in a tournament when he made a brief comeback a decade or so after he retired. I had more of a practical issue with the main information to be passed at the clandestine meeting, which seemed unlikely to really be the key to the Cuban missile crisis to me but I don't want to reveal a spoiler. The bigger issue is that the film rather plods along, with limited tension. It is watchable, but hard to really recommend.

The Coldest Game is a relatively unknown film whose scene is set in the deepest moment of the cold war, i.e. the Cuban missile crisis. It is a well made film, professionally directed and produced, despite a slightly old fashion a d artisanal look-and-feel. The plot, though well conceived, is affected by a few mistakes which to a certain degree put me off; one is a detail of general context: every time the players get of the cars there is a crowd of paparazzi waiting for them....paparazzi in Warsaw in 1962? Excuse me? Then there are a few more substantial mistakes regarding the espionage tradecraft: is it possible that there was no more discreet place for a Russian spy to pass a super secret microfilm to the opposition than a crowded chess world championship at the centre of everybody's attention? Lastly, there are a few too many murders, and it is well known that killing was a means used very very exceptionally by field agents in the course of their operations. Nevertheless the movie is a decent one and quite watchable.

Honestly it was good to see bill pullman in a leading role since he is good actor and he deserved this but i wish that he get a better film to be star in,this film was completly boring and lifeless to me,entire plot of this story was told in a very weak way but it could be told in better one if it had better material to work with,entire plot with playing chess was completly out of place for me and it took me out of a film for some minutes,also what was with subtitles when russians were speaking,i know that isnt movies fault more netlix one,but still this film was felt like missed opportunity to make a good cold war drama with a great actor