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Old 03-12-2012, 10:05 PM
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I thought this was a pretty taut 1999 thriller. President Bill Clinton appears to add verisimilitude. Islamic terrorists wreak havoc in New York City. Things get worse and worse until martial law is declared. Bruce Willis is a power-mad general. Muslim-American internment camps in a stadium, patterned no doubt on what happened to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor. All that kind of thing.

I was interested how wrong the film was projecting "backlash" against Muslims for the acts of terrorism depicted in the movie. These acts, of course, heinous as they were, paled in comparison to 9/11 and while the backlash was a big deal in the film, there was relatively little after 9/11, not enough, for example, to pass hate crimes against Jews, and it died down quickly.

What was supremely ironic, were views of the city, like this:



Worth watching, IMO.
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Yep, and its hardly ever on anymore. I wonder why that is?
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I have watched it several times and it is pretty tense.



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A good flick, a lot of it right on the money. 1999? Jeez time flies.
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