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The French New Wave cinema is alive and well, thank you, as evidence by this powerful film.

Slow and subtle, it gives us a look at community, in this case a community of Trappist monks working with poor Algerians. They are faced with almost certain death by Muslim fundamentalists if they stay, but can they abandon the mission they were sent to do.

A look at differences in religious belief is a fundamental of the film. The Muslim soldiers cannot fathom the praying over a dead terrorist, but didn't god say to pray for your enemies? The music is amazing and the scenery is spectacular, but it is the agony of decision amidst war that really hits home.

Superb!

Leave it to director Brian De Palma to De Palma's to really show us the bizarre and the paranormal, and the special effects necessary to create them. In Carrie, he had Sissy Spacek tear apart houses and burned down the high school. Look for the same excitement and fun here. From nosebleeds to explosion, he mines the kids in the film for all they are worth.

Kirk Douglas, who plays a former government agent, is on the trail of his son, who has these psychic abilities, and who was kidnapped by the government.

Amy Irving, who was Carrie;s friend gets her own opportunity to shine.

Yes, it does have one of the goriest scenes in the movies.

A Brad Pitt movie I haven't seen. What a surprise?It also has Juliette Lewis, and that's a big plus.

As an additional bonus, it has Maryann (Michelle Forbes) from True Blood. Mchelle was also in The Killing as Mitch Larsen. She was also in three episodes of Waking the dead; episodes I have not seen yet.

It was a fascinating film about serial killers and Pitt was dark and amazing as the one they never expected.

Lewis was her usual funny white trashy self.

Forbes was the real star here as the one that went from revulsion to fear.

Mind blowing action.