Saw the rest of the films on my "The Whole World Anti Terrorism War Movie" DVD comp that I bought about a few years ago.

World Trade Center

This is a bit disappointing. Was expecting a movie detailing what it was actually like in the chaos during 9/11. Instead, it's about bonding between two police officers downed in the rubble and what their immediate families went through. Which would have worked on a personal level were it not for the fact that Nicholas fucking Cage plays one of the police officers. Prone to histrionics and over-emoting, I swore that when he started screaming, I'd thought he was gonna shout "Arrrggghh! The Beams! Oh No, Not the Beams!". As a whole, it doesn't really work and it feels like too much mawkish sentimentality. The only bit of heroism comes in the end in the form of rescue workers. It might have been better had the religious card been played more - shots of Jesus and the Marine who found the policemen as a sort of calling. But oh well, as Rammstein once sang - "We're all living in America".

Children of Men

This one feels a bit forced to me. All the shots of the pregnant girl in a world of infertility is supposed to provoke awe and wonder with the bombastic stringy music but I refused to be moved. What I do like about it is the interplay between Clive Owen and Michael Caine in the beginning. Also, the long one-take shot of Owen running through a battlefield is nice, with the blood-spattered camera lens. And any movie with a King Crimson song can't be all bad. Plus the cover of "Ruby Tuesday" only shows what a great song it is. Otherwise, a pretty futile exercise even if Cuaron did direct my favourite film in the Harry Potter franchise.

Most Wanted

Total pile of crap. Another "patsy trying to clear his name in a conspiracy" movie. This is also another Keenan Ivory Wayans vehicle but there are no jokes and he plays it po-faced throughout. The best bit is the recreation of Beatlemania as there is a huge reward on Wayans and a whole crowd of people wanna claim that reward. Otherwise, the sniper scope looks like a 3-year old's drawing and Jon Voight and Robert Culp are basically hamming it up for what it's worth. Zero point five out of ten.

Kurtlar Vadisi Irak (Valley of the Wolves - Iraq)

Based on the popular "Kurtlar Vadisi" TV series in Turkey, this one is a slamming of American foreign policy in the Iraq war and recreates some of the controversies during "The War Against Terror" - the hooding of Turkish soldiers for interrogation, the organ transplant trade scandal, the massacre of a truck-load of prisoners and the wedding party massacre. Unbelievably weighted towards three Turkish secret agents who are near-superheroes, I still quite enjoyed this somewhat, even if it is Anti-American, Anti-Christian and Anti-Semitic, as alleged. The suicide bombing scene is brutal and gritty. It doesn't hold back on the war is hell angle, although I doubt the Americans in Iraq are as villainous as this movie claims.