Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale. The film, based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels (1979), is about the theft of two suitcase nukes. locations include El Paso, New York, Washington, D.C., Texas, New Mexico, France, Italy, the Alamo in San Antonio, White Sands National Park, Alamogordo and Albuquerque,<!-- https://marcvaldez.blogspot.com/2019/10/wrong-is-right-1982.html --> and others.
Richard Brooks made a product placement deal with the Sony, which allowed use of Sony television monitors and news equipment.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times said the screenplay was scattershot and Sean Connery's performance is "the first uncertain [one] of his otherwise exemplary career". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote, "Wrong Is Right is possibly the noisiest film ever made, and the most incessantly whirling one. Its only distinction is that, besides being basically rotten, it is also rotten on the surface."
Donald Guarisco of AllMovie said, "If viewed through a cult-movie mindset, it's easy to see why Wrong Is Right is appealing to that group of viewers. The script has a scathing, darkly funny take on international politics that one wouldn't expect from a well-funded Hollywood project of the early 1980's and also mixes up offbeat humor and message-oriented drama in a way that keeps the film from affecting a comfortable Hollywood style."
Awards and nominations
Rosalind Cash was nominated for an NAACP Image Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture.