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It's difficult to sustain a responsible subtext when you're delivering the jolts required to keep butts in the seats.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Siege
An enemy they can't see. A nation under siege. A crisis they can't control.
1998 · 1h 56m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Edward Zwick
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The Siege
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Edward Zwick Director
- Denzel Washington as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
- Annette Bening as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger
- Bruce Willis as Major-General William Devereaux
- Tony Shalhoub as Agent Frank Haddad
- Sami Bouajila as Samir Nazhde
- Aasif Mandvi as Khalil Saleh
- Mark Valley as FBI Agent Mike Johanssen
- Jack Gwaltney as Fred Darius
- David Proval as Danny Sussman
- Lance Reddick as FBI Agent Floyd Rose
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
44%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Even at its most unbelievable, The Siege has the performances of Washington and Bening to fall back on, and a theme that understands that what's difficult is not choosing right from wrong but 'choosing the wrong that's more right.'
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
The Siege is many things at once: tense, exciting, disturbing, and thought provoking.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
[Benning] is the only fresh, compelling character in the film.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
Rotten
Just about distinguishable from several dozen predecessors in the same apocalyptic vein.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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