Director: Stephen Marshall
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Nathan Crooker, Amy Redford
The idea behind this film is solid, but its delivery is disappointing. This low-budget semi-documentary, semi-film is set in New York City during the 2004 Presidential Election, amid a politically divided nation with growing civil unrest in connection to the widespread opposition of US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The events unfold as a young journalist, working for a large media corporation, is assigned the task of covering the anti-State, anarchist, Constitutionalist, and the collective urban underground revolution against the Bush Administration's imperial foreign policy. Little does he know the hidden motives of his corporate superiors as he discovers he's fueling the very powers he's attempting to fight.
Distracting side plots aside, there are some really nice scenes of riots and protests and clashes with NYPD, but its delivery was disappointing and anti-climatic. The idea and concept behind this film is what gives it value, but I think a lot more could have been done to deliver a real adrenaline punch.
B- for acting and screenplay.
C for directing.
B- for plot.
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