 Although considered standard fare for war films, even tinged with propaganda, "One Minute to Zero" received notice because of one controversial scene showing the U.S. shelling refugees being forced through U.N. lines by North Korean infiltrators.Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" dismissed most of the action-based story in a review that noted, "Like a great many war pictures, this one is patly contrived with elements not only of romance but also of melodrama, comedy and tears.There is the usual amount of jaw-jutting by angry and earnest G.