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WAR OF BEACH CRITIC MOVIE

Run movie ticket will run you Eight Bucks. Phrase again: 'Collapses under its own weight!' Just in case you can't figure that out - and half a ton of distorted sound, dialog Of earlier sequences in black and white - to make the point that they're flashbacks, But, almost as if he knows that the story is incomprehensible,ĭirector Christian Duguay resorts to a healthy heaping of flashbacks, repeats There are three action/chase sequences (including

And even though I've spilled much more than I usuallyĭo, it won't bloody well matter. Pull off the action and attitude, The Art of War could have been a totalĭisaster. 'collapses under its own weight?' I knew that you could. Of this flick, is suffering a deluge of rain that would make Noah say 'See? On top of all this, New York City, for more than 90% of the back end And the illegal aliens in the canister, just for good Shaw also gets to figure out who's killed his teammatesĪnd the Chinese ambassador. The Chinese mob, the NYPD and figure out the mystery while watching out for Juliaįang ( Marie Matiko), the cute Chinese interpreter he's handcuffed to the Richard Kimball for the rest of this flick as he must outrun the FBI, When the suspect in the murders turns out to have high tech weaponry that'd makeĬourse, is our favorite UN operative Neil Shaw ( Wesley Snipes) who gets UN celebration in New York, the FBI will put their nose anywhere - especially With the assassination of the Chinese ambassador and the shooting of Chan at a Investigating the deaths is pudgy FBI agentįrank Capella ( Maury Chaykin) and although that crime has nothing to do That only the purchase of the director's cut DVD with complete commentary will That's just anotherĬlever writing/directing thing - they bury the clues to the mystery so far down Two lines of explanation buried an hour later in the flick. His right-hand man, Eleanor Hooks ( Anne Archer).Īnd the Korean political situation have to do with the cargo canister filled withĭead Chinese found on the docks of New York City is quite beyond me - even with For he is part of a super secret United NationsĬovert operations team - Secretary General Douglas Thomas ( Donald Sutherland)Ĭan't disavow any knowledge of their actions because all knowledge stops with Of Buddy Holly style glasses featuring Ethan Hunt IMF technology) and martialĪrts chops, among other things. Colors and fireworks are flashingĮverywhere and Snipes gets to show off his high tech gadgets (including a pair High tech information theft, the better to blackmail a pedophile North Korean Inside, a suave black man in a tuxedo jumps over the balcony rail to conduct some The press are locked outside the doors and One, thrown by the phenomenally wealthy businessman David Chan ( Cary Hiroyuki Kong, New Year's Eve 2000, we are privy to the most exclusive of parties. That the opening sequence of The Art of War absolutely rocks. Those holes don't start to open for a good forty or so minutes, which means, simply, Our neighbors every time one of the mammoth holes in logic popped up in the script. Wayne Beach and Simon Davis Barry for allowing star Wesley Snipes'Ĭharacter to explain everything to the audience, thus distracting us from nudging Much incomprehensible? We'd like to thank The Art of War screenwriters [Rated R for strong violence, some sexuality, language and brief drug content.Ĭomplained in the past about high tech action flicks with stories that are pretty Screenplay by Wayne Beach and Simon Davis Barry

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