Powerful drama.

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2006)

I don't rush to see Oliver Stone films, but this is a masterpiece. This is a well-directed, well-acted, well-set designed, well-scored, etc, motion picture. Every production element comes together and the first fifteen to twenty minutes are nerve wracking! You know what's about to happen, but yet dread knowing! There is excellent and powerful drama at work here, a must-see! This exceptional film is the anti-"9/11 Farenheit". Stone should be Oscar-nominated, as well as, the actors, but for Gyllenhaal who just isn't believable ... but you overlook her performance because Bello and the rest of the cast excel. America is a place in everyone's heart, and that the same director of "JFK" and the bombastic "Alexander" directed this work is a testament to his talent.