| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Fascinatingly-prescient movie about religious fundamentalist terrorism on US soil leading to martial law being declared.
The usual race-against-time to find the bombers is very much in evidence here, combined with the some perspicacious commentary on US foreign policy and its often tragic consequences for US citizens - both at home and abroad. The tragedy of such policies for foreigners are less well-handled dramatically, however, apart from stating the obvious that abusing foreigners in their own lands will always lead them to seek revenge in yours.
The core of this film is the White supremacist inability to assume that those who do not look White and those who are not Christian, are somehow a threat. This helps distract us from the hero-cop cliches that are also well in evidence. That Whites believe skin pigmentation to be the basis of national loyalty and the willingness to obey the law explains much of what happens in this movie and gives it its all-important edge of credibility.
A thoughtful film that rises above the average cops-seek-fanatics' story with Denzel WASHINGTON in fine, vigorous and heroic form and, unusually, the excellent Bruce WILLIS surprisingly well-cast as a villain.
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