Oh come ON...
That scene where all the Yemens are firing at Sam Jackson was so damn comical.. and then the one legged girl has a gun! I thought I was watching The Naked Gun.
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Did anyone notice the lack of evidence of bullet holes on the walls of the embassy, given how jackson saw everyone and their mothers emptying what seemed like 100-round clips at it - from the hip?
Evidence tells a better story and the movie would have been better to just not omit so much of the logical details to make their drama. (Could the ambassador's statement have been That hard to impeach??) The confusion of what kind of evidence is examined in that kind of trial allows the lazy minds to jump to their favorite, but flawed conclusions - It also enables politicians to continue using irrational rhetoric to make illogical policies. They'll wrongly believe "taking the gloves off" is all that will work and "rules of engagement" are just stupid "appeasements", because it ensures the good guys will always get screwed by the trial lawyers.
What we really need is to win a war on ignorance before tackling a war on terror. (Just dont ask what 'victory' will look like with either one;)
Given how much evidence was being suppressed by the producers made it look to me like the plot could be leading to a more realistic conclusion - a movie about how things sometimes DO get imagined, leading to tragic events like that. Jackson could have been so stressed from his wound that he imagined everyone was firing at him, including the armless beggar, who was using his feet. But almost no bullet holes could be seen (if any). People under stress imagining things occurs more than the average audience knows, even though they've heard the excuse about mistaken firing coming from crowds, where there was none. (I once hallucinated a danger when under great stress and have been amazed ever since by what i briefly saw that wasn't really there - lsd never came close to doing that).
But that would have been something closer to reality and thus bo-ring.
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Yeah -- amazing how that works; how astoundingly different eyewitness stories will be at a crime scene, for example. Human brain just isn't designed to process certain things.
And if they'd left that damn cut-in scene with the NSA advisor and his damn video tape out, I think they would have had the chance to tackle some really interesting issues -- just how foggy things can get when it comes to war, and how hard can be to resolve what happened later. All in all, though, they decided they wanted to tell a tale about the shining glory of all things American and left it as a vapid, lazy, morally evasive flick.
Waste of time.
Movie would have worked better if the flashbacks were revealed to be fantasies by an over-warred and brainwashed Samuel L Jackson.
Seriously, all the arab kiddies whipping out their 6 shooters with unlimited supplies of ammo, the women with AKs - hands down, probably the most racially vilifying scene ever in a Hollywood film.