Jim Murray

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BEIRUT
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This is a very good movie from 2017, which stars
Jon Hamm as a former intelligence guy who was
stationed in Beirut and in the course of an
abduction, lost his wife, and ended up as a la-
bour negotiator stateside.

Then, the powers that be, needing a disposable
asset to do a negotiation with a terrorist group,
tags him and sends him right back to where the
worst things in his life happened.

I'm not really giving away much here, because
this movie is very complex, and it's shot with an
intensity that a lot of movies don’t have these
days. It reminded me very much of the director
Michael Mann who was famous for using the
camera as a character to help tell his stories.

Beirut is an outstanding geopolitical drama,
and Jon Hamm does an amazing job here at
forcing the issues he has to deal with. And he
has a strong, believable supporting cast as well.

Of course, the movie it makes America look
like a bunch of imperialist thugs, but then that's
a pretty easy thing to do.

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