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My wife and I actually had time to ourselves this past Tuesday evening and went to a movie. Unsure what to see I chose "Spartan" since I like David Mamet movies and also like Val Kilmer. It was quite good.
To describe the movie let me first list all the things "Spartan" does not have:
- Car chases
- Fiery car explosions
- Endless gunfights with 300 round magazines
- Characters physically fighting to get to the just out of reach pistol
- Two characters wrestling over a pistol with a "bang!' and, "oh no, who got shot!?"
- Snappy one liners between a good guy and bad guy
- Snappy one liners after the bad guy dies
- Girl in trouble and the hero start a romantic relationship
- Hero's best friend is working for the bad guys
The plot: Val Kilmer is some sort of special forces soldier or Federal cop (it's never quite clear) who is called in to help the Secret Service after the president's daughter goes missing in Boston. The movie follows Kilmer and a couple colleagues as they try to figure out where the girl is and if she was kidnapped, ran away, murdered, etc.
The shooting scenes are well done and Kilmer does a very good acting job.
I looked at the movie website and read a short interview with Mamet, the director, and he hired a Eric Haney, former Delta Force commando, to be a consultant/advisor after reading Haney's autobiography. I grabbed the book (Inside Delta Force) at work and the book is interesting too.
To describe the movie let me first list all the things "Spartan" does not have:
- Car chases
- Fiery car explosions
- Endless gunfights with 300 round magazines
- Characters physically fighting to get to the just out of reach pistol
- Two characters wrestling over a pistol with a "bang!' and, "oh no, who got shot!?"
- Snappy one liners between a good guy and bad guy
- Snappy one liners after the bad guy dies
- Girl in trouble and the hero start a romantic relationship
- Hero's best friend is working for the bad guys
The plot: Val Kilmer is some sort of special forces soldier or Federal cop (it's never quite clear) who is called in to help the Secret Service after the president's daughter goes missing in Boston. The movie follows Kilmer and a couple colleagues as they try to figure out where the girl is and if she was kidnapped, ran away, murdered, etc.
The shooting scenes are well done and Kilmer does a very good acting job.
I looked at the movie website and read a short interview with Mamet, the director, and he hired a Eric Haney, former Delta Force commando, to be a consultant/advisor after reading Haney's autobiography. I grabbed the book (Inside Delta Force) at work and the book is interesting too.