Another entry in the extraordinarily-intelligent yet naive teenager nearly starts a nuclear war/disaster flicks of the early through mid-1980s.
It's hard to believe that two people would be guarding a nuclear facility and would be outsmarted by someone they are twice or thrice as old as. It's even more unbelievable that the twenty-something playing teenager would be able to steal highly unstable plutonium and not disease himself or others while it was in his possession. Unbelievabler still is the notion that a bunch of introverts at the science fair would save him and the bomb from the government, "in the name of science" (the plot may have been more interesting if they stole the bomb and used to promote their own agenda.)
However, those who choose to watch this movie will be well rewarded with great acting(seldom seen in many of the actors later works) and suspense in the last half-hour or so when the unplanned consequences come to a head.
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