Finally: A Movie About Iraq That Doesn't Completely Suck

Over the years there have been at least a half dozen movies about the war in Iraq, seemingly all from the anti-war crowd, and they all wound up as colossal bombs. Well, we now have a movie seemingly free of politics and it's getting good reviews. Hollywood, for all its liberal talk, continues to be an all-boys club. Yet Kathryn Bigelow hasn't only made a place for herself there, she'd done it by blithely avoiding the femme-film ghetto of indie tragedies and making terrific, testosterone-pumped action pictures that have impressed even the toughest fans. After all, what fanboy director wouldn't give up a few of his mint-edition comic books to be able to brag that he made the cult hits "Point Break" and "Near Dark"? Even Bigelow's misses - the apocalyptic "End of Days," the Harrison-Ford-as-a-Russian "K-19: The Widowmaker" - had... [read full story]                    

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