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...Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) has been assigned to guard the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. against a death threat by Hong Kong triads. The ambassador is murdered by an assailant named Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada), whom Lee tracks down but can't bring himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen...
...Local Parisian color is provided by some unusual suspects: director Roman Polanski as a police inspector with a sideline in proctology; Noemie Lenoir as a chanteuse whom Carter has a dalliance with before suspecting that she's a female impersonator ("I went to second base with a man! It's The Crying Games! I'm Brokeback Carter!"); and actor-director Yvan Attal (My Wife Is an Actress) playing a cab driver who switches from anti-Americanism to pro-Hollywoodism once he becomes embroiled in one of the Lee-Carter chase scenes. "Now I know what...
Chaplain Benson told the Inspector General's office that the office had violated his due process rights, that it lacked authority to investigate a complaint by a non-federal employee, that Benson's speech was protected under the Constitution's First Amendment, and that his identification in the film as "Pentagon Chaplain" did not imply DOD endorsement of the film...
Weinstein said of the Inspector General's report, "This is a victory, but a Pyrrhic victory. The Pentagon's response has been at best tepid." He predicts that the Inspector General's recommendation for "appropriate corrective action" will be interpreted leniently. However, he says, "this supports what we've been saying, that a Christian Taliban is running the military...
Such rhetoric is fairly typical of Weinstein, who claims that he has faced a retaliatory campaign of harrassment and threats, some of violence. The new Inspector General's report will hardly reduce the flow of Weinstein's hate mail. But it constitutes an instance of official support for some of his concerns...