The Peacemaker (1997) *

DreamWorks' first film is a third rate Tom Clancy imitation (minus Harrison Ford), with plenty of gung-ho jingoism and anti-Slavic xenophobia. Wouldn't it be refreshing to have a, say, Icelandic villain for a change ? While an evil Serb leader gets a nuclear weapon from an evil Russian general and tries to detonate it in New York City, viewers are left to ponder the sorry state of Hollywood cinema, where even vicious ethnic stereotypes are more boring than offensive.