plot

The handling of this plot device, with the canny veteran Reid wandering in and out of the drama like an informational time bomb, is a little clumsy.

It does follow the contours of the original, whose plot ranks among the most well-known in theater history and culture in general.

Caracas fears the deployment, which also includes F-35 stealth warplanes sent to Puerto Rico and six US Navy ships in the Caribbean, is a regime change plot in disguise.

As soon as the drumbeat-sound behind the opening titles appeared, and the first black-and-white frames commenced the plot, I was transported back to a place I hadn’t anticipated visiting.

This event becomes a pivot point for the plot, which turns increasingly dire—and increasingly hard to take seriously—in its final act.