
As the Americans run Japan they also reserve the right to fly aeroplanes with nuclear weapons on board over the skies of the country. The Japanese mountains are often referred to as the Alps and it is here that a secretive US military aircraft with weapons of mass destruction crashes. The race is on for a group of journalists to climb the mountains and reach it. Yet, they are not the only ones aiming at securing the site for their own purposes.... (Full plot summary below)
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As the Americans run Japan they also reserve the right to fly aeroplanes with nuclear weapons on board over the skies of the country. The Japanese mountains are often referred to as the Alps and it is here that a secretive US military aircraft with weapons of mass destruction crashes. The race is on for a group of journalists to climb the mountains and reach it. Yet, they are not the only ones aiming at securing the site for their own purposes.
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| DVDTalk.comDavid CorneliusAn unexpectedly personal thriller that thrives on complexity. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandGripping and ultimately poignant thriller. |
| New York TimesMatt Zoller SeitzIzuru Narushima’s film is a personal and political melodrama with perfunctory gunplay and explosions. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThis is pure big-budget formula filmmaking. |
| PopMattersBill GibronLike a series of subplot ships slowly meandering downstream to a final narrative focal point, Midnight Eagle has to be one of the most languid political thrillers ever conceived. |
| VarietyRussell EdwardsWhile key blockbuster elements (ticking bombs, intrepid reporters, lightweight politics) are all present, the film's brisk pacing can't hide the fuzzy logic of the tenuously structured, convoluted script. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisIt's frustrating that Midnight Eagle is more concerned with puffed-up nationalist pride than logic. How did five characters' paths all converge at the exact same minute anyway? |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThere are many new Japanese movies that deserve a stateside release. Why this hapless mess beat them out is a question that deserves an answer. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinA stupor-inducing, would-be thriller from Japan whose sporadic action and inept storytelling is as generic as its title. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy KleinPoorly structured, filled with coincidences and plot holes, and laced with scenes of more-than-usually cloying sentimentality, this is oh!-so-far from the best representative of current Japanese cinema or of Asian cinema in general. |