Comments

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 2006)

Denzel Washington carried this movie and it was quite good. It did feel like a throw back to the 1970's with the purposeful lack of finality with the bad guys winning in the end and a lack of completion to the plot. One obvious and ugly negative was when the former Nazi, (Christopher Plummer), reveals to Jodie Foster's character that he offered up his Jewish friends to the Concentration Camp in exchange for money and jewelry, a photo of George H.W. Bush, his wife with an unidentified person comes into focus in a picture just behind him on a nearby desk. A few seconds later as he continues to confess his horrible deeds and omissions, you see a picture of Margaret Thatcher with another out-of-focus person, both presumably the former Nazi character himself. Perhaps someone can send Director Spike Lee and Writer Russell Gewirtz a recent history of World Affairs. Bush 1 and Thatcher helped end suffering in eastern Europe by patiently bankrupting the Soviet Union and liberating eastern block countries. What a subtle, cheap and boorish disservice to two patriotic and honorable citizens of democracy. More of the same of uneducated, emotional Hollywood types.