I've been waiting for this movie

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2007)

I've been waiting for this movie for years. The book, Point of Impact, by Stephen Hunter is one of my favorite books of all time. I've always thought that it would have made a great movie, and this was no disappointment.
While it's not true to the book (Mark is no country-boy by any stretch of the imagination) it follows along plenty good, and all-in-all, I think you'll enjoy the movie.
The previous post from someone likening (sp?) the movie the French Connection, All the Presidents Men, Marathon Man, even Rambo, is someone who is living in the past. Movies, for the longest time, have all been about escapism. From Casablanca to Star Wars, a good movie is always about fantasy, in some aspect or another.
While documentaries are nice and all "real", that's not why we want to go to movies. We want to go to movies to escape real life, even if it's just for 90 minutes.
If you like action movies with a good story line, go see this movie, you'll enjoy it. If you are expecting to see a documentary on the politics in Washington and the existential paradigm of the New World Order and how this is all a result of Global Warming, narrated by Michael Moore and Al Gore, then this movie isn't for you. Go hug a tree instead.