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...most popular DVD selling on the streets of Baghdad these days is Volcano. Though its title suggests the latest natural-disaster flick from Hollywood, the film--a jerky montage of photos and video footage lifted from the Internet--depicts a wholly man-made inferno: the year-long insurgency against U.S. forces in Iraq. Set to popular Iraqi military songs, it depicts attacks on U.S. convoys, the devastating results of roadside bombs and American soldiers carrying dead and injured colleagues. The footage also includes pictures of wounded and dead Iraqis in Fallujah and elsewhere...
...unimaginative screen writers leave no generic demon flick cliche unused; terrified children bang on windows, creepy red-lighted darkrooms, chases through the woods and a Tituba-esque majestic coerce shrieks from the audience...
...does, with impressive sadism. A moderate audience’s sympathies don’t always stay with the vengeance seeker but Scott wants us to care. His actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic River never achieved. The kidnapping plot is incoherent, but in the end, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as The CIA’s last intelligence report...
...what he says “isn’t revenge. This is punishment.” Watch as Saint’s minions are brutalized in a variety of intriguing fashions with a Guns and Ammo fetishist’s dream array of tools. Often though, this revenge flick is a bit too strong for genre tourists, just for those who have come to stay...
Trouble is, say civil rights advocates, the bans are too vague and probably violate free-speech and privacy rights. Would a cop levy a fine for airing, say, an NC-17 flick like Showgirls or only for more explicit fare like Debbie Does Dallas? Republican Mark Norris, a sponsor of the Tennessee bill, has an idea but can't quite put it into words. Scooby-Doo, he says, is fine, but "if it's too Scooby, that's another matter...