Jason KingFree Tix to Traitor!!
November 2nd 2008 20:54
Hi Guys and Gals,
The kind people at Paramount and Santa himself from Network PR have kindly given me 5X double passes to go and see Traitor when it releases this Thursday. I myself have not seen it yet so can't offer a review however it looks very interesting and to me looks similar to some extent to Body of Lies starring Leo and Russ. This one was originally written by Steve Martin who somehow (god knows how) came up with the idea while filming Bringing Down the House. It stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce and looks like a great political thriller.
TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative. The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives to Muslim extremists. But what is never completely clear throughout TRAITOR's numerous plot-twists is just where Horn's allegiances truly lie: is he an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot or a devout Muslim who has traded his sympathies with the West? When an arms sale runs afoul, Samir is jailed in a Yemeni prison where he befriends Omar (Said Taghmaoui), a ringleader of a terrorist organization that is being watched by the F.B.I. A bold prison break is hatched and the pair begins collaborating on a series of bombings throughout Europe. As Samir becomes embroiled in ever-escalating terror plots, it becomes clear that he is duplicitously playing both sides at growing danger to himself and the lives of innocent people. Cut with a breathless, war reportage-styled pace, TRAITOR is an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller whose seemingly equivocal ideological veneer can be summed up as: "In war, there are no winners."
So to win one of these double passes I will give them to the first 5 people that leave a comment stating what your fave political thriller is. If you are one of those 5 please also personal message me your postal address - if you can't work out the comment section or PM section then please feel free to email me at jkdigitaldesigns@gmail.com
Good luck and have a great day!!
The kind people at Paramount and Santa himself from Network PR have kindly given me 5X double passes to go and see Traitor when it releases this Thursday. I myself have not seen it yet so can't offer a review however it looks very interesting and to me looks similar to some extent to Body of Lies starring Leo and Russ. This one was originally written by Steve Martin who somehow (god knows how) came up with the idea while filming Bringing Down the House. It stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce and looks like a great political thriller.
TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative. The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives to Muslim extremists. But what is never completely clear throughout TRAITOR's numerous plot-twists is just where Horn's allegiances truly lie: is he an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot or a devout Muslim who has traded his sympathies with the West? When an arms sale runs afoul, Samir is jailed in a Yemeni prison where he befriends Omar (Said Taghmaoui), a ringleader of a terrorist organization that is being watched by the F.B.I. A bold prison break is hatched and the pair begins collaborating on a series of bombings throughout Europe. As Samir becomes embroiled in ever-escalating terror plots, it becomes clear that he is duplicitously playing both sides at growing danger to himself and the lives of innocent people. Cut with a breathless, war reportage-styled pace, TRAITOR is an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller whose seemingly equivocal ideological veneer can be summed up as: "In war, there are no winners."
So to win one of these double passes I will give them to the first 5 people that leave a comment stating what your fave political thriller is. If you are one of those 5 please also personal message me your postal address - if you can't work out the comment section or PM section then please feel free to email me at jkdigitaldesigns@gmail.com
Good luck and have a great day!!
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Comment by MelG
Not sure if this counts as a political thriller, but I love Death of a President. It's brilliantly done. I often forgot that it was a fictional movie and not a documentary of George W Bush's assassination.
I'll email my details to your private email address as I can't seem to work Orble out yet!!!
Mel
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One double pass to go people!!
Comment by Hatchy
I also like Runaway Jury.
do I get my tix?
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I still can't work out how to send you a private message, but I'll work it out by the time the next competition comes along.
Hatchy
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you can send Jason a private message OR use the email address he gave above!
jkdigitaldesigns@gmail.com
i think only registered members of the site (like people with profiles) have access to the private message function, so the email is a good alternative to visitors and guests!
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I guess I'll have to join Orble...hmmm
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