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...PAVE LOW A 21-ton high-tech monster that can land on a dime...
Most of the film deals with the transformation of the two main characters. Slowly, Colonel Winter changes from a seemingly nice warden who is a little strict into a cruel, vindictive monster. On the other side of the prison bars, General Irwin gradually changes from a passive observer of prison violence into the inmates’ one last chance at salvation. Throw in the compulsory estranged daughter and the usual assortment of martyrs and you have a script that is about as derivative as they come. In fact, its only saving grace is that it actually contains some unexpectedly humorous...
...from injuring their heads. The red, plush upholstery on the gray seats almost matches the four no-smoking signs that breathe life into the shuttle wall’s mundane stretches of white paint and window. Such simplicity balances the external power of this ten foot, seven inch long monster...
...that's just background music for what is already on its way to being a monster news week. The bin Laden asset-freezing continues, the Taliban says he's hidden in-country and practically dares us to bomb away. The Russians are arming the rebels. (Oh. And the Supreme Court disbarred Clinton.) Congress might reveal its thinking on the rest of that $100 billion in the wings, and the Pentagon could be ready to reveal a little might...
...then, many wars are. In World War II, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill made common cause with Stalin--"Uncle Joe" for a brief while, but in the full measure of his life, a bloodstained monster--in the fight against fascism. Even heroes compromise, and Churchill has long been a hero of Bush. When he welcomed five religious leaders to the Oval Office last week, the President pointed out a bust of the British leader. Churchill, Bush once told TIME, was the political leader he most admired, and Card says that since Sept. 11, Bush has spoken of Churchill often...