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...cynical repartee in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy The Front Page zipped like the Super-Chief through a plot of political and journalistic malfeasance. When director Howard Hawks in 1940 changed ace reporter Hildy Johnson from man to woman, the story was also about another frantic combat: marriage. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the sparring partners in the fastest, nastiest farce Hollywood has ever made...
...America deserve justice. But that's not what's happening today. Who really believes Zacarias Moussaoui played a part in those attacks? He was in prison on Sept. 11, and had been for weeks. He's admitted he was in the U.S. to prepare for some plot. He's said he's a member of al-Qaeda, and proud of that. He's pleaded guilty - against the urging of the lawyers and my pleadings not to. So, with all that going against him, why not admit he was part of the Sept. 11 attack as well? Because he wasn...
...something unrelated to those charges - the Sept. 11 attacks - may not be crazy, but he's not thinking logically. Which also takes us back to something Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogators: that Zacarias Moussaoui wasn't reliable enough, that he wasn't part of the Sept. 11 plot. Look at the care the others took to remain secret, not draw attention to themselves, to even play the role of the miscreant to keep anyone of suspecting their real thinking and intentions. Now look at Zacarias Moussaoui's behavior - the one that led to his arrest...
Mostly, however, we are treated to a hammered-into-our-heads, play-by-play, of implicit connections—Lola equals the misfit shoes, or Charlie equals Lola because he also feels out of place, and so on. Every step of the plot is already marked firmly on the ground...
...There are plot holes even in the classic of the genre, “In the Line of Fire.” The difference is that Malkovich and Eastwood were acting. Both sides were attractive and there was real tension and mystery. That was a movie. This is an entertainment. It is a better enterntainment than the Wesley Snipes version of a similar story, “Murder at 1600.” But it is an entertainment none-the-less. Take it as such, and enjoy...