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C+ |
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| Story: |
B- |
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B |
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| Direction: |
C |
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B |
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Hollywood vs. Reality
by Caribe (movies profile)
Jan 28, 2008
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106 people found this review helpful
The problem with Hollywood doing a movie during the time OF the current event is that it is left up to the interpretation of whomever writer/diector is making the film.
Audiences - smitten with the stars of the movie - in this case, the watchable Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner - are influenced by the slant that the "characters" put into their performance.
To say this is anti-Saudi royalty/anti-war/pro-leftist whatever - is pretty fair. Berg "Bruckheimers" the action scenes, to grab the audiences attention. because in reality, much goings on in the Muslim world are mundane.
If audiences would simply take this as total fiction - it would be fine. But they won't - and that's where the problem lies.
The FBI/House of Saud cooperation depicted in the film is total fiction. In reality, the Sauds take care of their own dirt. That's the main problem with this film.
In reality - it wouldn't happen this way. |
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