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Review title: Whitewash at the Whitehouse.
Product review: The actual Cuban Missile Crisis provoked 2 films, one (Dr. Strangelove), arguably the most daring, funny, and ferociously facetious satire ever made; the other (Fail Safe) a sober, thought-provoking thriller. Like this. Fail Safe flopped, because by treating the subject with due earnestness it made it seem not very scary, whereas Kubrick's laughter was noose-swingingly gallows. But at least Fail Safe retained its grim integrity - 13 Days, especially towards the end, needs increasing doses of uplift and religious sentiment. This is a comforting, nostalgic, macho film that sets its narrative in the present tense so we can forget the dubious legacy of its protagonists. What saves it is a haunting final image that seems to undermine the previous two and a half hours.
