shame on you Spielberg

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2006)

horrid ending. worst sex scene ever. wife was not a real person, as she was perpetually supportive and accepting of her husband and showed not even stress from her predicament. acting, however, in the film was good. direction was offensive. lazy and overplayed parallel editing, over the top iconography. Spielberg knows how to make movies, he should not insult his audience with such self indulgent identity exploration. it is indeed a very messy thing, terrorism. i don't think the film commented beyond the overt and obvious on its subject matter: what happens when the line is blurred between duty and acts of terror/violence, what does it mean to be a Jew, what does it mean to have a HOME, what is the cost of that HOME, etc.. there was some success in displaying the tasks of the protagonists as stressful and disorganized.i wish Spielberg had adhered to that same visceral approach when he addressed the arc of the story, the structure, and the stylistic application thereof. he pulled an AI, and slapped a schlocky Hollywood infrastructure. gag me.