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Gli agenti dell'FBI Brody e Jackson sono alla ricerca del terrorista Younger, americano poi convertito all'islamismo, che ha disseminato tre set di armi nucleari pronte a esplodere in altrettante città. Una volta arrestato viene chiamato il veterano H, esperto in torture, che cercherà di farsi rivelare l'ubicazione degli ordigni.
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Format:DVD
Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) plays Agent Brody an operative for the FBI counter-terrorist detail; when a home-grown nuclear scientist, Steven Arthur Younger (Michael Sheen) releases a video stating explicitly that there are three nuclear bombs in three separate cities throughout the U.S. the military police wheel in their black-ops interrogator (H - Samuel L. Jackson - Cleaner) to extract the location of the bombs regardless of the methods required to reach the answers.
Agent Brody struggles with her morals, battling with the need for information and the procedures inflicted upon Younger. The film really makes you think about when is it OK to use inhumane methods of interrogation if it has a greater good. Using legal loopholes to avoid the Geneva convention is very much what happens in Guantanamo Bay today.
This film is fairly weighty in it's scope and does have some decent subject matter to make you think. However, the near-entirety of the film is shot in a single room (either the 'torture' container or in the viewing room outside of the container) and is very dark and sterile as a result. Carrie-Anne Moss is rather wooden in her moral struggle and Jackson plays his usual hopped-up maniac role, neither of them really amaze in any respect. This is effectively a feature length 24 episode, even involving the CTU of the FBI - however it is a lot more plausible and relies less on hyperboly to instill drama.
As an aside, Jackson delivers quite possibly the most hilariously stupid line I have heard in a film for a long time: "I work alone...with an assistant, and one other to fill-in when I get tired" - So you don't really work alone at all do you 'H'?? Tragic writing!!
This is a good film but it's bland milleu and slow pace might lose your attention, definitely one for the thinkers!
Agent Brody struggles with her morals, battling with the need for information and the procedures inflicted upon Younger. The film really makes you think about when is it OK to use inhumane methods of interrogation if it has a greater good. Using legal loopholes to avoid the Geneva convention is very much what happens in Guantanamo Bay today.
This film is fairly weighty in it's scope and does have some decent subject matter to make you think. However, the near-entirety of the film is shot in a single room (either the 'torture' container or in the viewing room outside of the container) and is very dark and sterile as a result. Carrie-Anne Moss is rather wooden in her moral struggle and Jackson plays his usual hopped-up maniac role, neither of them really amaze in any respect. This is effectively a feature length 24 episode, even involving the CTU of the FBI - however it is a lot more plausible and relies less on hyperboly to instill drama.
As an aside, Jackson delivers quite possibly the most hilariously stupid line I have heard in a film for a long time: "I work alone...with an assistant, and one other to fill-in when I get tired" - So you don't really work alone at all do you 'H'?? Tragic writing!!
This is a good film but it's bland milleu and slow pace might lose your attention, definitely one for the thinkers!
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A fantastic film which makes with the viewer question their own morales.
The acting is superb, the storyline is unique and compelling, and the movie has a fast pace through out which would keep any viewer's attention.
However the movie is fairly brutal and not for those who could be easily offend.
The acting is superb, the storyline is unique and compelling, and the movie has a fast pace through out which would keep any viewer's attention.
However the movie is fairly brutal and not for those who could be easily offend.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Do not be misled by the opening 10 - 15 minutes into thinking this is a routine FBI/terrorist thriller - it's not. This is almost entirely a film about torture and pain and how far "civilised" society is supposed to hurt one individual for the greater good of the many. Most of the action takes place at a secret goverment building where, with time running out to the possible explosion of three nuclear bombs on US soil, the suspect is subject to increasingly harsh measures by Samuel L Jackson's pain technician. While not over gory, the torture scenes will have you wincing and cringing even though stopping short of eye gouging, branding or removal of vital male appendages.
What's difficult to see is the message the producer/director are trying to get across? Is it a right wing movie suggesting that torture up to and including the physical harm of a suspects family is acceptable in extreme circumstances, or a left wing anti torture.
Anyhow those who felt for Michael Sheen's plight may gather some comfort from the very last moments of the film!
What's difficult to see is the message the producer/director are trying to get across? Is it a right wing movie suggesting that torture up to and including the physical harm of a suspects family is acceptable in extreme circumstances, or a left wing anti torture.
Anyhow those who felt for Michael Sheen's plight may gather some comfort from the very last moments of the film!
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