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Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Suspense; With: Annette Bening, Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis
B-
By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

THE SIEGE (R) A piece of guilty demagoguery. New York City is under attack by Arab terrorists, and everyone responds by getting very, very tense. Finally, the President declares a state of emergency, and the city is placed under martial law. The Siege isn't a racist screed. It's a cautionary tale about the excesses of jingoist paranoia, and the folly of it all is that the more the film descends into somber liberal chest thumping, the less engrossing it becomes. By the time the tanks roll over the Brooklyn Bridge, you may think, When did Pat Buchanan get elected President, anyway? B-


Posted Nov 20, 1998
 

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