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Star of Jaipur (1998)
Amateurish production
I bought this DVD for $3.00 recently and it is the most inept piece of "movie making" I have ever seen. The "action" scenes are so bad that I laughed out loud. The plot, about a terrorist squad that comes in to NYC to unleash a pathogen into the atmosphere, actually has some merit, but it is directed so poorly that one must wonder who financed this debacle. The characters are so cardboard that the actors portraying them must have struggled to keep from laughing when reading their lines. It reminded me of a really bad porn flick, except no sex.
I really find it hard to believe that George Lazenby and Linda Gray were so desperate for work that they participated in this production. They must not have done their due diligence when investigating the production values of the film or they are somehow related to the director.
In order to justify asking anyone to watch this film, it should be made as an example of how not to make a movie.
Traffic (2000)
Provocative, brilliant but disturbing.
The idea that the two sides fighting the drug war,i.e. law enforcement and the drug cartels, would suffer equally if this ludicrous "war" were to end sends a very disturbing message to the gullible citizenry of this nation. Bravo to Mr. Soderbergh for having the courage to show that the two "opposing" sides are really nothing but mutually benefitting perpetrators of an indefensible fraud committed upon the minions residing in this country. Apparantly the war on drugs isn't even as effective as General Salazar's drug abuse rehabilitation program in Mexico.