Shock and Awe
Shock and Awe

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On 9/11 2001, the World Trade Center is destroyed by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. In the resulting tumult, the reporters of the Knight-Ridder news service, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel under the editorship of John Walcott, hear odd reports that President Bush's senior administration is not so much concerned with finding the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, as they are in blaming the secular dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. Despite their intelligence sources sa... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Shock and Awe:

Woody Harrelson
James Marsden
Rob Reiner
Tommy Lee Jones
Jessica Biel
Milla Jovovich

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On 9/11 2001, the World Trade Center is destroyed by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. In the resulting tumult, the reporters of the Knight-Ridder news service, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel under the editorship of John Walcott, hear odd reports that President Bush's senior administration is not so much concerned with finding the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, as they are in blaming the secular dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. Despite their intelligence sources saying that Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, the K-R reporters discover that the White House is obsessed with finding any excuse to attack Iraq with cherry-picking intelligence reports and blatant lies by its officials. As the journalists dig deeper, their competitors uncritically repeat the Bush Administration's falsehoods that too much of the public is gullible enough to believe, making their quest to find and print the truth proves as a frustrating struggle as events barrel to a needless war.

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San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Mick LaSalleShock and Awe is no “All the President’s Men,” but it does present a nice balance to the earlier film’s ultimately rosy picture.
Deadline Hollywood Daily - 8/10 by Pete HammondRob Reiner tells the truth of an endangered free press in a powerful and pertinent drama about journalists who just want to get it right.
Original Cin - 8/10 by Liam LaceyReiner’s attempt to create Spotlight-like docudrama of newsroom courage and stoke fresh outrage about government lies is undermined by clunky old-fashioned filmmaking and Joey Harstone’s exposition-clotted script.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Richard RoeperAt times Shock and Awe is reminiscent of journalistic procedurals from “President’s Men” to “Spotlight” to “The Post,” and it gets the nitty-gritty details of an early 2000s newsroom just right.
Shockya.com - 7/10 by Harvey S. KartenA schmaltzy look at the workings of a syndicate determined to expose the U.S. mistake in Iraq while one of its subsidiaries refuses to print it.
What the Flick?! - 7/10 by Ben MankiewiczThere is a degree of outrage [in] the movie, but there is no passion in that outrage...the characters had it but the movie didn't.
Movie Nation - 6/10 by Roger MooreIf nothing else, the timely Shock and Awe is a blunt reminder of how important a skeptical press is in countering a popular government — or even an unpopular one — that is hellbent on lying, misleading, on doing something for nefarious reasons, and has all of cable news, talk radio and a truth-averse internet backing it up.
Los Angeles Times - 6/10 by Gary GoldsteinIf this swift, entertaining film, set during the post-9/11 run-up to the Iraq war, brashly leans left, it has history on its side as well as, it seems, the interests of our soldiers.
Splice Today - 6/10 by Stephen SilverHarrelson's a joy to watch, as usual, as are Marsden and Jones, although Jessica Biel is given little to do as Marsden's love interest, and Milla Jovovich plays a nagging-wife role best left in another decade.
The New York Times - 6/10 by Ben KenigsbergAt a time when the current president routinely dismisses the accuracy of reporting, Shock and Awe feels more timely than it might have. It also captures an aspect of journalism not often portrayed: the fear of being wrong when the conclusions of your reporting break from those of your competitors.

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