Shock and Awe has a worthy story to tell and some fine actors trying to bring it to life; unfortunately, the end results are still as derivative as they are dramatically inert. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Review this title
The film stars Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, James Marsden, Milla Jovovich, and Jessica Biel, and follows a group of journalists at Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau who investigate the rationale. James Marsden and Woody Harrelson in "Shock and Awe."Credit. Families can talk about how the press is typically portrayed in movies.
Is this how you imagine journalists are in real life? Do you think what the reporters did in Shock and Awe was right or wrong? 'Shock and Awe' Review: Journalistic Drama Is No 'All the President's Men'. Rob Reiner's chronicle of two reporters fighting an administration's war on reality should be the Fourth Estate movie we need 'Shock and Awe' should be the Fourth Estate movie we need - so why isn't it? Shock and Awe Undercuts Its Own Great Story. James Marsden and Rob Reiner in Shock and Awe. Rob Reiner's well-meaning drama about journalistic integrity prior to the Iraq War is a little too cozy for its punchy politics.
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The shock feels less than shocking and the awe less than awesome in Rob Reiner's righteously motivated but clunkily executed exposé of media. 'Shock and Awe': Film Review The movie marks Reiner's directorial return to the political-ethical turf of his recent LBJ, and further back, The American President and A Few Good Men; it has all the ingredients, though none of the spices, for a stirring journalism thriller. Shock and Awe's most egregious offense is simply how shallow and commonplace it feels.
As a result, it never finds any narrative traction or emotional engagement. Brian Thompson's adoration (and borderline obsession) for all things pop culture has culminated in his movie reviews blog. 'Shock and Awe' review: Woody Harrelson, James Marsden star in Rob Reiner's heavy-handed movie about Knight Ridder's pre-Iraq war reporting. Tommy Lee Jones stars in "Shock and Awe." (Photo: Vertical Entertainment). All of this might be forgivable if "Shock and Awe" weren't such a terrible movie.