Word: gunness
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Gone is the carefree run ’n gun quarterback who risked it all on every play last year. In his place stands a much wiser Fitzpatrick, who uses his legs primarily to free up his arm and while on the run finds his receivers as if both were standing still...
...soldier returning from Baghdad on his way home to Hawaii for leave. Opening his laptop, he asked me whether I wanted to see what “Iraq was really like.” How could I say no? After seeing a person hit by a .50 caliber machine gun in the head, another guy turned into a kind of jerked human by the shockwave of a tank’s shell and an innumerable number of dead bodies disfigured by improvised explosive devices, I wondered why this never made it on the news. Whether you’re watching...
...palpable danger of an arms dealer’s shed after dark are all powerfully unsettling. The inability to determine the loyalties of men standing on barren hillsides with rifles is eerily evocative of the American predicament in Vietnam. Watching the crew careen through Kabul amid real machine gun fire at least equals, and perhaps eclipses, the thrill of elaborately staged action...
...trace of a British accent? Because Calil is English. Why do Lars and Wali, formally introduced at the start of the film, immediately act as if they have known each other for some time? Because Calil and Razaqi have. Would Lars be better off without his iPod during machine gun skirmishes with the Taliban? Yes, despite the iPod’s role in the film’s off-color quasi-twist ending...
...presidential campaign-obsessed terrorists put a gun to my head, and demanded that I name three electioneering innovations from Kerry-Edwards, let’s just say that you wouldn’t see any more columns from...