Plot: When a camera crew shoots inside a nuclear facility, they witness a small panic. The mishap is covered up and they cannot show footage of the incident. The reporter feels something is wrong and she convinces the director of the plant to look into it. He discovers something that may put the entire plant at risk.
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May 20, 2024
A disaster movie, 70s style. It's not like the action-driven ones from the 90s, instead, we get a simple but life-threatening disaster that spawns a deceit-based thriller. I'm not the biggest fan of 70s cinema, it's a bit too slow and narrative-focused for me, but The China Syndrome handles it quite well.
So we have the little folk battling the power-hungry corporations. The threat is real, but not very cinematic (and the potential for some visual thrills is completely wasted). The build-up of the tension is decent though and the performances are okay. It's not a terrible film, but it's all very basic and dire by modern standards.