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The nonstate actors range from 10 cent thugs such as Miller, who has merely shanghaied a small island, to world-class dastards such as Bin Laden, who runs a supranational organization, has loyalty to no government, owns a vast fortune and an armory of high-tech weapons, and is engaged in an elaborate conspiracy so secretive that we were not aware of it till it smacked us in the head.
Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.
Elsewhere, Anderson uses Mamet actors and Mamety diction, but he's the Anti-Mamet.
There's always a sense that his characters are living even when you're not watching them, maybe because the actors don't seem "on" the way they do for other directors: Altman catches them in his gaze and gives them the once-over and then they go about their business.
The gangsters, the militiamen, the porn actors, the over-the-top football fans--they're all fascinating, but I don't think that any of them says very much about most of us.