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...bruising, intricately staged spectacle of New York City brought to a quaking halt by a series of ever more serious bombings--first a bus, then a crowded theater, then a federal building--mounted by that lately easiest-to-despise of all groups, Arab fanatics. A panicked government institutes martial law, which includes internment camps and occasional descents into torture when no one can think of any better solution to a crisis. As a result, there's plenty of (literally) raw material to keep the action fans happy...
...love with one of them. Even Bruce Willis' Army general, leading the troops who take over the city, is given an interesting spin. He's one tough, exceedingly dutiful nut. But we also know he's overcompensating, because in an earlier scene he has given a speech against martial law. He doesn't think policing their own citizens is proper work for soldiers...
...desperate manhunt being carried on by Hubbard and Bening, the government is forced to react as more people are killed and the public cries for action. In comes General Deveraux, with thousands of soldiers and tanks, blockading the Brooklyn Bridge and sealing off the entire borough of Brooklyn. Martial law is declared and all Arab men are rounded up and sent to concentration camps set up in the city, similar to the way the Japanese were treated in World War II. Relations flare up between our trio of characters, who are all trying to resolve the crisis through their...
Take the rebel romanticism of Jodeci and the pleading sincerity of Boyz II Men, and add a dash of the martial-arts mythologizing of the Wu-Tang Clan. Let simmer, and you'd have something approximating the R.-and-B. vocal quartet Dru Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...
...performing martial arts b) pushing away invisible tanks c) auditioning for the Chinese road company of A Chorus Line d) expressing individuality...