Roger Simon's series detective Moses Wine takes a trip to
Northern California, trying to save his radical environmentalist
son from getting
arrested for a tree-spiking that killed a logger.
Moses is, as always, self-pitying and tedious. I remember Richard
Dreyfuss played him in the movies years ago; good choice. His son
takes after his father, so I'd nominate, oh, say, Sean Penn to play that
role.
One of the interesting side effects of doing the Blockbuster online
DVD rental is, they give you two coupons per month for a "free" rental
at their bricks-and-mortar stores. So on Friday evening, I find myself
at the store without the slightest idea about what to rent. Hence, this
movie.
IMDB gave it a piddling 3.9/10 stars. It's not that bad; it's funny
in spots, a stupid but intriguing premise about mind control,
and has colorful villains, all of whom get their comeuppance,
thanks to Mr. Steven
Seagal.
OK, so Steven Seagal has gotten old and fat. So have I, and I'm
actually 20 days younger than he. He's doing better than I at keeping his
hair, so I give him some respect for that.
This movie should not be called Submerged because only about
15 minutes is spent on a sub. The sub is not particularly important
to the plot.
But when did you last see a movie set in Uruguay? How did they pick
that? (According to the IMDB, however, it was actually filmed in Bulgaria.
So how many movies have you seen that were filmed in Bulgaria?)
If you're permitted to read language that you
would not hear in a PG movie, Stephen Green has an
apt analogy
to Cindy Sheehan's desires to meet with the President again.
John Podhoretz
and Jim Geraghty
distribute some healthy skepticism over the charge
that the 9/11 Commission ignored the evidence obtained by Able
Danger that (allegedly) found Mohammed Atta and a Brooklyn-based
Al-Qaeda terrorist cell in 2000.
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