Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
"No one will really know what happend..." And that includes the audience, because this is a mess of a movie Bill Pullman is swimming joyfully in the river of Ham, because he has to play drunk, hungover or in the need of a drink. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to make the leads superpower alcoholisme? At least it's pretty, and the production design is nice and gives a nice vibe of the 60s. Even if it has been cut by a 5 year old with no sense of continuity. Luckily it's only around 90 minutes long, so it has that going for it.
