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Hi, I will skip passed the 'politics' of this movie, for they we're in it as much as an Alien base exists on the backside of the moon. That is to say, arguably so...
Discussing the story and even the premise of the movie, the whole thing falls apart from scratch. Are we honestly to believe that a major player in the terrorism business would walk around, calling people across the globe with a traceable mobile phone? Are we seriously to believe that a 22 or so annalist, after a bombing that made a coworker of his die in his lap, would scratch his head, utter a 'What a day folks' and then take up the job of an observer to a professionally carried out torture, even lending a hand? I didn't...
Stupidities aside, the movie was slow, sluggish even, with people staring at each other, waiting sometimes several minutes to mutter a response to the initial bit of script. Acting never convinced me, not even by veteran Meryll Streep or Jake Gyllenhaal (who made me weepy in Donny Darko) who had exactly one scene in which he was actually acting and not sleepwalking around the faxmachine that he used to 'deliver' his lines.
The music score did nothing to provide gravitas to the movie and it consisted of maybe 1 or 2 themes which were rewinded time after time, or reshuffled and then put on again providing even more release to even the worst insomniac alive today.
I honestly fail to see why people are impressed with such a hackneyed screenplay and story which was as straight forward as they come and yet make some people feel they saw something thought provoking, which is becoming an increasingly annoying term here on IMDb for you will find it even in the reviews of the latest Rambo entry.
I wasted what felt like 5 hours with this movie, don't say you weren't warned.
5/10
score 1/10
CineCritic2517 11 February 2008
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