Wrong is Right (1982)
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006K-I-Double-L him, by God.
Wrong is Right bills itself as comedy, but it works better as a mediocre spy thriller with occasional bursts of humor. It largely fails as a comedy because, for the most part, it’s often hard to tell at what they were aiming their humor. As political satire, it’s too broad and too tame to be effective.
As a spy thriller, the plot is a mish-mash that falls apart in a second if stop to think that long. Sean Connery plays a globetrotting TV journalist whose exploits are bigger news than the events he reports. George Grizzard is an embattled American President and Leslie Nielsen is his political rival. We also have a black female Vice-President (Rosalind Cash), a hawkish (and slightly unhinged) general (Robert Conrad), a Qaddafi-like terrorist leader (Henry Silva) and a Saudi king (Ron Moody) who may or may not be losing his mind. Add a variety of spys, spooks and arms dealers (John Saxon, Katherine Ross, G.D. Spradlin and Hardy Kruger) and you have a big, talented cast with not much to do.







