What is 'The Brink of War,' the new Jeff Daniels movie that's trending?
Seeing Jeff Daniels trending with a movie about Reagan. What's it about and is it any good?
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"The Brink of War" is a historical drama from Angel Studios (the faith-based studio behind "Sound of Freedom") depicting the real 1986 Reykjavik Summit, where President Ronald Reagan (played by Jeff Daniels) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (Jared Harris) met in Iceland to negotiate nuclear arms reduction — a meeting widely viewed today as having laid groundwork for later arms treaties, even though it was seen as a failure in the immediate aftermath. Writer-director Michael Russell Gunn, making his feature directorial debut after working as a story editor on Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom," actually filmed key scenes at the real Reykjavik location where the historical talks took place. Early reviews have been mixed-to-critical: several major outlets (The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Yahoo) found the nearly single-location, dialogue-heavy format better suited to a stage play than a film and felt the movie leaned toward telling audiences how to feel rather than showing it, while other reviewers (MovieWeb) praised Daniels and Harris's performances and called it a genuinely engaging history lesson. If you're interested in Cold War history told through a talky, performance-driven lens rather than an action-oriented one, it's generally described as a solid — if not spectacular — watch.
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