A beautiful movie, with Brendan Fraser.

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2005)

So, If million dollar baby, closer and ray can get Oscars, this will rip the awards apart by taking 40 of the couple of awards it will probably be nominated for as it is a good film, not a bad one like this years bunch, Sideways excluded. Any film that has Don Cheadle getting laid has to be a good one, he wouldn't do it for Clooney, would he, seeing as he is a producer for this, and has someone believe that they were saved by an angel as he fired blanks has to be funny, sweet and well done, and the performances given really justify the intensity, thoughtful and damaging ideas with wit, integrity, and fantastic scenes of people of LA crashing as their lives touch in different ways to other cities. Brenden Fraser being able to get away with having a go at taking a photo, never taken, of him pinning a medal on an iraqi called Sadamn and not getting told off makes this racially confident and strong enough to cope with what is thrown at it. Not a popcorn film, but useful as a form of brain flakes.