Their main problem, besides short fuses and using the familiar ugly word to describe the act of love, is having a lot of presumably hip friends who blab about sex endlessly without a clue. But Us is not as clever. Pfeiffer is also terrific in a very funny-sad speech. Some pleasurable adult mainstream moments, but no epiphanies. It s a critique, in the anti-Vietnam spirit, of ugly American behavior and refusal to get involved as Saddam s thugs wiped up his enemies after he was presumably defeated.
Yanks stumble about.
They are not so much evil as ignorant, messing up the good Iraqis. American women are unflatteringly represented by sexy, career-driven TV journalists. They go on a rogue mission of greed to find and make off with a cache of gold bars stolen from Kuwait. They bump into Republican Guards but also anti-Saddam rebels and civilian hostages, who plead for help in getting to Iran. Clooney must decide between saving them or saving the gold.