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Hey - I can actually say a few things here that
at least are current. I actually saw The Siege with a few of my
partners while in California over the weekend. I was intrigued in
part because some of the scenes (the open air protest scenes near
the end) were filmed in downtown Brooklyn not far from where I
live. (Authenticity point - although downtown Brooklyn is indeed
the center in the Northeast for middle-eastern food and related
shopping and a large number of Arab-Americans live in the area, I
know of no area that has the bazaar look portrayed in the movie.)
At any rate, based on less than broad
experience in action type of movies, I thought that a lot of it
was quite good. I found the bus scene to be quite chilling. The
Willis character would have been a total laugh had it not been
for his acting, however. His whys and wherefores were baffling as
well. The overall message may have been simplistic, but maybe the
simple truths here were worth stating.
Which leads me to my last comment. I don't
think that the movie was defamatory of Arab-Americans as a group.
On the contrary. Sure, the terrorists were Arabs. Fact of life.
The way the mass hysteria, fanned perhaps by some, led to the
internment of all those innocents, was well done. Not really
overstated at all, even with the FBI father looking for his son.
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