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Felipe II took credit for a rousing naval victory at Lepanto, teaming with Venetians against the Turks, but less than two decades later Spain was subjected to the humiliating defeat of its “invincible” armada, at the hands of Sir Francis Drake and a small English navy.
John Woo, its director, has long demonstrated a rousing indifference to mere reality, and this movie--in which the characters routinely somersault through the air firing guns from both hands--is just his latest salute to impossible, operatic violence.
Mandela may lack the rousing American oratory of a President Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Jesse Jackson, but his manner and his unflappable dignity show him as a disciplined, persistent leader who is willing to sacrifice short-term gratification for long-term achievement, the kind of moral leadership we need everywhere.
Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."
During the congressional deliberations on whether to approve the use of force to drive Iraq from Kuwait, House Speaker Tom Foley delivered a rousing call for bipartisan patriotism.
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