{"id":174648,"date":"2018-04-16T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=174648"},"modified":"2018-04-16T07:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:47:33","slug":"beirut-movie-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2018\/04\/16\/beirut-movie-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_174681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174681\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/beirut-movie-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/beirut-movie-2.jpg\" alt=\"beirut movie 2\" width=\"1440\" height=\"664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174681\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from the film Beirut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BEIRUT<br \/>\nBleecker Street<br \/>\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten<br \/>\nDirector: Brad Anderson<br \/>\nScreenwriter:  Tony Gilroy<br \/>\nCast:  Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham<br \/>\nScreened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 4\/13\/18<br \/>\nOpens: April 11, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jon Hamm is a painfully handsome middle-aged actor who was perfectly cast in \u201cMad Men.\u201d  He fits in handily as a Madison Avenue executive and was born to smoke and drink while selling expensive advertising to major clients. He should be considered to be the next 007 provided that he can imitate the king\u2019s English.  He is well cast in \u201cBeirut.\u201d  He still drinks and smokes, occasionally raises his voice.  He is a negotiator as he was in the brilliant TV episodes, so adept that even the bad guys in the Middle East insisted that they would talk only to him to arrange an exchange of prisoners.  Tony Gilroy\u2019s story for this new release is as confusing as Brad Anderson\u2019s direction.  From time to time a bomb goes off in Lebanon\u2019s capital, and occasionally there is the rapid fire of AK-47 as bad guys in the usual headgear and mouth coverings do what they do for reasons that are not always clear to Americans\u2014who think that the only reason that people take risks is for money.<\/p>\n<p>As Mason Skiles, Jon Hamm is shown in Beirut in 1982 with flashbacks to his time in Lebanon\u2019s capital ten years earlier.   In 1972 things were looking up for Skiles, then a diplomat.  He enjoys the company of his lovely wife Nadia (Leila Bekhti).  The couple even adopted Karim (Yoav Sadian Rosenberg), a Palestinian refugee who is now a cute kid of 13.  But Karim has a secret: his brother Abu (Hicham Ouraqa) was a bad guy responsible for the murder of Jews during the Munich Olympics. Just as Karim and Skiles are having a nice chat, a deadly terrorist attack during a diplomatic party leaves Nadia dead.  Skiles, now in no mood ever to return to the middle east, takes on a job at home as a labor negotiator but is called back in 1982 because Cal Riley (MarkPellegrino), a good friend, is being held prisioner.  The terrorists want to trade him for Abu Rajal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that they want only Skiles.  His adopted son Karim (Idir Chender) is now grown up, a fighter for the Palestinian cause, and feels certain he can trust his stepdad to pull of the trade, but the sinister U.S. diplomats are divided in motives leaving only Sandy Crowder (Rosamund Pike) to support the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>What could have been a film to break new ground as did the filmmakers for the superb \u201cMad Men\u201d series instead create a same ol\u2019 retread of spy stories, which in itself would not be so bad if the story did not plod along with boatloads of banter which do nothing more than confuse the viewer further.  This is a surprise coming from the screenwriter, Gilroy, whose \u201cArgo\u201d in 2012 presented an ingenious ruse to get six people who had escaped from Iranian clutches out of the country by setting up a fake Canadian film company. \u201cArgo\u201d was not confusing, was full of original ideas, and with excitement that flowed organically from the plot.  This one\u2019s a dud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated R.  109 minutes.  \u00a9 2018 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 D<br \/>\nActing \u2013 B<br \/>\nTechnical \u2013  B<br \/>\nOverall \u2013 C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT Bleecker Street Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Brad Anderson Screenwriter: Tony Gilroy Cast: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham Screened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 4\/13\/18 Opens: April 11, 2018 Jon Hamm is a painfully handsome middle-aged actor who was perfectly cast in \u201cMad Men.\u201d He fits in handily as a 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