gregghelvey

Ignore the fake 10/10 reviews by paid hacks. This film, if you actually watch it, especially if you're a Wes Anderson fan, will showcase just how far off the quality street he has fallen off. Visually, it's remarkably dull, using monochrome in the most lazy and unimaginative way, and taking away the distinctive colours of a Wes Anderson film. But visuals are not everything, and more importantly the plot suffers from an extreme amount of pretension, humour that misses the mark, and lack of character development or even screen time. It's a film full of misses, and the current 7.5 score just goes to prove that film reviews are mostly fake and PR driven, and in today's world, quality is immaterial when ratings can be bought. 2/10.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a war crime that remains unpunished by the so-called war crimes tribunal kangaroo courts which seem to only punish those the war criminals deem punishable. This powerful documentary reminds us all that the war crime occurred after the entire world stood up in protest at the Bush and Blair regimes plans to kill millions of Iraqis, destroy that country and give rise to new horrors in the following years. The fact that these war criminals and their associates walk free is testimony of why film's like this are important to remind us of their unpunished crimes against humanity.

This is one of those films that grabs your attention from the masterful opening shots which give us a birds eye view and peep into the world of domestic, private espionage. The rest of the film delivers on the premise and does it with pure style and panache, assisted by the editing of the master, Walter Murch.