Published Monday, Mar 5 2012, 3:55am EST |
By Simon Reynolds
Everyone from Robert Redford (Lions for Lambs) to Paul Haggis (In the Valley of Elah) and Paul Greengrass (Green Zone) has tried to answer big questions about America's response to 9/11.
The box office failings of those films suggests that audience appetite for war on terror as entertainment may be limited, but with Homeland enjoying success on the small screen, is there scope for more exploration of the hot topic subject matter?
This week's new release Cleanskin (starring the always-excellent Sean Bean) puts terrorism in the UK under the microscope. It's an action-thriller that wisely favors character development over sermonising, presenting two men at opposing ends of the ideological spectrum.
Bean plays Ewan Keane, a war veteran and secret service agent who saw friends die on the frontlines and lost his wife in the attacks on London. He's on the trail of a terrorist cell who swipe Semtex from a shady arms dealer in Cleanskin's bloody and brutal opening sequence. Ewan's handlers, played by Charlotte Rampling and James Fox, know that his grief and fury makes him an asset who'll shoot to kill.
Read further: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/review/a369219/cleanskin-review-sean-bean-fights-uk-terrorism.html
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