The movie would have been better with a Whitaker/Koskov love scene.

Just think. It's sundown, Whitaker is showing his Russian ally around his mansion after a few drinks, and he's impressed by all the dioramas. "Well, Brad," Koskov says, "You are as well studied in war as you are handsome." Whitaker then looks wistfully at Koskov and places a hand on his hair. "True," he responds, "But the only battleground I've never known how to win is...the human heart." It's at this point that he pushes his Civil War miniatures off a table and pulls Koskov closer to sprawl over it. The Pretender's If There Was A Man starts playing on the soundtrack, and the camera slowly drifts out from the sweaty embrace...but not before we see one of Whitaker's miniature cannons rising suggestively.

This After School Special dissipates our chances of survival, John!