STOP-LOSS (Theatrical Release USA 2008)

 

Ben Meyers’ Rating: 3.9|5.0 Starsììì  Stop-Loss—interesting—looses viable, well-thought-out solutions to stop-loss. Naivety dominates choices to seek help from biased authority rather than accept one's fate. The movie does not stand on a firm pedestal, but devolves into hopelessness due to lack of personal autonomy.  Film Poster Courtesy of Google Images Storyline On a military tour in Iraq, a man nearly loses his entire team in an alley ambush. Now, home in Texas, he gets notice that he has been chosen for stop-loss. Additional Thanks  Thank you to Director Kimberly Peirce for directing effort. Thank you to Producers Gregory Goodman and Scott Rudin for making the film possible. Cast includes  Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Rasuk, Rob Brown,  Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?  Yes. It's interesting to see how stop-loss works. Nice to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum, Ciarán Hinds, and Ryan Phillippe working together. Video Critique Available Here:

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6 DAYS (Theatrical Release Indonesia 2017)

Ben Meyers’ rating: 3.7|5.0 Starsììì

6 Days—based on true events—features Actors Ben Turner, Jamie Bell, and Mark Strong to tell its 1980s hostage story. This should have been a straight forward, easy story to put on the screen because there is no lack of tension in the real-life version of events. It’s worth a watch, but at times the tension flags and there are bits of slowness that flicker in and out of many of the scenes.

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Storyline

Salim (Ben Turner) takes hostages in London’s Iran Embassy and negotiates terms for release of 91 people held in an Iranian prison in exchange for his hostages’ lives.

Additional Thanks

Thank You to Director Toa Fraser for directing efforts. Thank you to Executive Producers Nate Bolotin, Andrew Boswell, Ian Dawson, Peter Hampden, Glenn Standring, Aram Tertzakian, Andrea Scarso, Norman Humphrey, Norman Merry, Gavin Poolman, Andrea Scarso for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Rusty Firmin (Jamie Bell), Max Vernon (Mark Strong), Kate Adie (Abbie Cornish), Dellow (Martin Shaw), Roy (Emun Elliott), Faisal (Aymen Hamdouchi), Ray (Andrew Grainger), John Mac (Colin Garlick), Tak (Te Kohe Tuhaka), and MI5 Spokesman (William Chubb).

Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?

Yes. It’s a good watch for its historical significance; but, a better choice is Ben Affleck’s Argo.

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