Battleangel

A “thoroughly fact-checked film” (!?) or a candidate for the Leni Riefenstahl Awards? American film critics are so ecstatic there HAS to be something wrong. What do you call it when the vast majority are giving the movie a 100% rating? I haven’t seen anything like that since, well, ever. No movie ever gets that sort of ratings. The media is lining up behind the message and even the rare few who didn’t like the movie dare mention the gaping fallacies in the plot, a plot which everyone seems to agree is not only loosely based on real life but actually is a depiction of real life. Had they made a fictitious movie and clearly labelled it as such, well that would have been fine. This is something else altogether. United 93 purports to show reality as “it really happened.” “Thoroughly fact-checked” as one fool put it, and curiously timed to coincide with the verdict in the Zaccharias Moussaoui trial, which in itself has been worthy of Hollywood storytelling. Actually, I take it back. At least Riefenstahl’s work had subtlety.