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List Price: $14.98 Features • DTS Surround Sound • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 06 November, 1998 DVD Release : 26 December, 2000 |
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Siege (Widescreen Edition) description A high-profile action/exploitation thriller set in the present, The Siege is really a fantasy that extrapolates from major terrorist attacks. Denzel Washington is FBI special agent Hubbard, "Hub" to his friends, whose anti-terrorist task force must track down the terrorist cells responsible for a spate of bombings in New York. His partner is an FBI agent of Arabian extraction (played convincingly by Tony Shalhoub), proving not all Arabs are bad guys--a point the film should be lauded for making again and again. Thrown into the mix is a CIA spy (played almost kittenish at times by Annette Bening), whose ties to the terrorists appear to be at the center of the conflicts. When the bombings escalate out of control, the President institutes martial law, sending in General Devereaux (played with impenetrable countenance by Bruce Willis) with tanks and troops to ferret out the terrorists. Echoes of Japanese-Americans in internment camps ring out as Arabs, including the son of the Arab-American FBI agent, are herded into a stadium. Periodic audio-montages of "man in the street" sentiments anchor the material in the present and show how serious and relevant the material is. But finally what we have is a taut and entertaining popcorn movie, giving itself the humanistic nod when it can. --Jim Gay |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | An Excellent Thriller, and Timely |
| 'The Siege' takes place in a pre-September 11 New York. Islamic terrorists have stirred the interests of the FBI and the CIA. The stakes are raised when Arabs seize a bus and threaten to blow it up. Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard (Denzel Washington), a crack FBI agent/negotiator, goes against the advice of CIA agent Elise Kraft (Annette Bening) and tries to negotiate the surrender of the terrorists. Kraft points out that the terrorists are not interested in negotiating, but in publicity.
Eerily prescient, the movie starts veering to implausability when a military crackdown on terrorists actually occurs in the United States, unlike what actually happened when more that a few Americans are killed by Islamic terrorists on that fateful day. The Siege is a tense thriller, well-acted, and probably seemed far-fetched when it hit the theaters in 1998. Sadly, the events in the movie foretold a bleak reality just three years later. In the movie, terrorist bombing after bombing occurs. Fortunately, we have (so far) be spared this sequential terrorism. Recommended. |
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