What? You're surprised it took Hubby and Wifey a few weeks to write and publish our reviews? Yeah, I know what you mean, me too (he types with sarcastic fingertips).
WIFEY'S REVIEW
This movie was going to be good seeing that it had Jennifer Garner and Jamie Fox in it. Also it is based on a true story. It was very interesting in the very beginning seeing as how it showed real clips from local TV shows for the first couple of minutes.
The first 5 minutes was a lot of shooting/killings from the terrorists. The talking in the movie was hard to hear from being muffled. There were a lot of intense parts during this film. One thing that I had a really hard time with was trying to figure out who was the good guys vs. the bad guys seeing they all looked, talked, and prayed to the same god Allah.
Watching this movie and seeing all these little kids wanting to act like their fathers and wanting to become a terrorists makes me sick. But on the flip side they did add a little humor into the movie seeing that a majority of it was such a downer!
Most of it was just evil. At one part of the movie the terrorist took one of the FBI Agents and was going to use him as bait and torture him. Talk about a nail biting scene when the rest of the team came looking for him - - WOW! I would recommend this movie to everyone!
I rate it 5 Ben & Jerry’s out of 5.
HUBBY'S REVIEW
This is another smart, edgy film by Michael Mann who also gave us The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, The Aviator, Miami Vice and (a little known favorite of mine from the '80s) Band of the Hand.
This is the true story of the events surrounding a terrorist attack on Americans living in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, a team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
I cannot imagine putting my life on the line like these people do on a daily basis in the name of preserving democracy and justice.
The acting was fantastic (casting even better!) and there were quite a few good action scenes. Although, when you stop to think about it, it feels a little strange being entertained by "action scenes" that are merely a retelling of what happened to these innocent people as well as those trying to hunt down such barbaric human beings.
That leaves me with one final comment. This was an extremely powerful, engaging, emotional film aside from the director's moral equivalency commentary at the very end this movie.
I won't give it away, but needless to say, it mad me angry. Peter Berg (the Director) manages to exact a similar fate on the viewing audience as the terrorists do on their innocent victims.
He highjacks us and preaches to us at the very moment our raw emotions are exposed and the whole experience makes one feel used and duped. It made this reviewer angry.
In essence, I maintain that this movie is a reality check for those who don't understand the true nature of the world we live in as well as the enemy we are fighting.
God bless our troops and their families for the sacrifices they've made (and will continue to make) on my behalf.
3.5 Ben & Jerry's out of 5, which makes this film's OMD rating 4.25.
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