Over at The New Republic, Christopher Orr is on a roll
with two highly entertaining takedowns of terrible-sounding
anti-war movies within a week -- Lions for Lambs last
Saturday, Redacted yesterday. Both
reviews make great reading, but I can't resist noting this line,
from the latter review:
Thanks to Redacted's clumsy, transparent
politicking, the crime it portrays never feels remotely real,
despite being closely based on an actual atrocity committed by
American troops in Mahmudiyah in 2006.
Hmm, so even though misconduct by American troops does happen, this
portrayal of misconduct doesn't ring true.
Sound familiar?
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Books, Movies
