YMMV / The Peacemaker

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• Awesome Music: Hans Zimmer, natch.
• Complete Monster: While General Aleksandr Kodoroff may merely be the courier to Dušan Gavrić's plot to nuke the UN headquarters in New York, he totally lacks his employer's conscience and loved ones. To procure Gavrić's nukes, Kodoroff has his men massacre a train full of soldiers carrying a shipment of bombs, leaving one on the train that Kodoroff subsequently rerails into the direction of a passenger train. The ensuing collision and nuclear blast kills thousands, something that unsettles one of his men and prompts Kodoroff to execute him on the spot. Kodoroff later slaughters dozens more at a Russian checkpoint en route to Gavrić simply out of impatience. Kodoroff's only concern through all this is lining his own pockets, expressing disgust at a line of refugees simply for being poor.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The latter half of the film deals with a terrorist attack on New York.
  • A White House official complains how much he misses the Cold War. Considering how relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated visibly in the 2010's he spoke too soon.
• Magnificent Bastard: Dušan Gavrić, a "human man" who eschews the usual stereotypes of the Middle Eastern Terrorists in the action genre, is a Serb who lost his entire family to the Yugoslav Wars and turns to extremism to make his pain known. Disillusioned by the fragmentation of his people and proudly affirming himself as "a Serb, a Croat and a Muslim," Gavrić condemns the West for supplying the weapons with which the wars were fought and the continued dehumanization of his people. Gavrić orchestrates a complex scheme to procure a nuke with General Aleksandr Kodoroff as his disposable courier. Gavrić exploits the fact he looks so inconspicuous to walk straight onto the UN headquarters in New York and plant the nuke in a backpack, and dies defiant to his murderers with his bomb intercepted mere seconds before the bomb can go off.
• Narm: The face Gavric makes when his family died in the flashback ruins the emotional impact of said scene.
  • Kodorof's very accented English.
  "Huu za fahk is zdyis?!"
• So Okay, It's Average: Both critics and audience shared the same opinion regarding the film. They still think it's better than Clooney's other film in 1997.

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