Shock and Awe

This was a well done movie which succeeded in angering me all over again how this criminal administration lied America into an illegal and immoral war aided and abetted by the main stream media and supported by a gullible populace who hates to admit that they were wrong.

A pretty good film that is suprisingly short. This means that the story progresses nice and quickly but leaves the movie lacking a little extra depth that I think would have helped its ranking significantly.

The acting is well above average but not unexpected when you look at the cast.

The love interest of the movie is a little unnessecary and probably wasted some of the limited minutes the movie had to work with.

Tommy Lee Jones was compelling but also not given a lot to work with.

Regardless of the movie you have to respect their dedication to following the story and trying to present the truth :)

The film of the expose of an impending fraud surrounding the run up to the Iraq War by the Knight Ridder News Service is itself as expose of how ignorant people were kept at the time.

And the fact no one in the GW Bush Admin carried the can for the war and no impeachment took place does not bode well for our political system, Rob Reiner's film accuratelly tell a story that few at the time wanted to know and many wanted to forget after the bloody mess was over.

It is a warning to America for the future.

Despite the A list cast and very worthy subject matter this movie about the WMD deception feels a little amateurish. There are pros and cons of the way the issues are stated clearly in more or less in sequence. The pros are you get it. The points aren't lost or mumbled so as to be missed. And there is not jigsaw puzzle narrative. That is good. Unlike Spotlight which was a bit confusing. The cons are it feels like a lecture / documentary. The best point is it puts together and illuminates the sequence of events and the WMD deception from it's early stages to the invasion and the consequences. The most eye opening thing is that these journalists were on to the deception from such an early stage and the main stream press refused to let the public know.

We had a good turn out at our little community theater in Fairfield, IA. Would screen again.