Synopsis
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
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Cast
- Denzel WashingtonAnthony 'Hub' Hubbard
- Annette BeningElise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
- Bruce WillisMajor-General William Devereaux
- Tony ShalhoubAgent Frank Haddad
- Sami BouajilaSamir Nazhde
- Aasif MandviKhalil Saleh
- Mark ValleyFBI Agent Mike Johanssen
- Jack GwaltneyFred Darius
- David ProvalDanny Sussman
- Lance ReddickFBI Agent Floyd Rose
Recommandations
- 88
ReelViews
It's a thinking person's thriller, where pyrotechnics give way to plot, character development supplants fight scenes, and adrenaline does not short-circuit intelligence. - 80
Los Angeles Times
A political thriller with more plausibility -- and yes, more thrills -- than most. - 70
Village Voice
An intramural debate masquerading as an action movie. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 60
Salon
If The Siege frustrates anyone, it should be the moviegoers who turn up expecting the kind of clean resolution that action movies thrive on. - 50
The A.V. Club
As a nail-biting thriller, The Siege is too confusing, and as a thought-provoking social drama, too confused. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
At some point, the movie itself crosses the line, from a modestly thoughtful attempt to extrapolate a drama from real and urgent events to a generic action piece with predictable good and bad guys and pat, civics-book morals. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is a dumb action flick that pretends to have a brain, a spot of affectation that plunges the audience into double jeopardy -- forcing us to traipse through not just the standard litter of bloody corpses but (oh, damn) the added trash of bloodless ideas.
