The Movie: This was a rather interesting movie to watch, as there are some uncanny parallels to the September 11th tragedies. You've got muslim terrorist cells bombing locations in New York. The force behind them? An arab leader whose men were previously trained and supported by United States to help unseat a hostile government. Sound familiar? Infighting between different government agencies hinder the investigations... Sound familiar?

After these bombings start in New York, there is a rash of hate crimes and racism against middle eastern people. Sound familiar? Yeah I thought so too. It was rather strange hearing the newscasters in the movie talk about this being the "worst terrorist attack ever to happen on American soil"... especially since the things that happened in this movie pale in comparison to what happened in real life.

The movie itself was just alright. I thought Denzel Washington gave a pretty good performance... Bruce Willis' character seemed kind of flat... but I just couldn't get over the strange parallels between the events in this movie and stuff that is going on in real life. Too strange.

The DVD: DVD wise... this movie sucked. The only special feature was a theatrical trailer, and the movie was encoded in a letterboxed 2.35:1 aspect ratio... talk about your wasted resolution! The film transfer was pretty clean though. Apparently there is now a widescreen-enhanced, anamorphically encoded version out there now though. The sound wasn't much to write home about.

So yeah. This movie is worth renting (which thankfully, is all I did), if for no other reason than to get the strange feeling that you've seen all this before... but for you DVD fanatics out there, I definitely would not rush to make this part of your collection unless you either really like this movie a lot, or you've made it your goal in life to collect every DVD ever released.