Early in The Brink of War, United States Secretary of State George Shultz (J.K. Simmons) remarks that being underestimated is a tactical advantage. Though he’s explicitly speaking about his boss, President Ronald Reagan (Jeff Daniels), his comment applies, to some degree, to the film in which he co-stars.
Writer/director Michael Russell Gunn’s drama about the October 1986 Reykjavik summit between Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (Jared Harris) over nuclear disarmament is a serviceable history lesson whose hagiographic earnestness is offset by understated turns from its leads and a persuasive pro-democracy, anti-communism attitude.
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