Review – Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris appears to be slipping. He can Phillip Glass as much as he wants, but slick production values don’t cover up the absence of substance. Sure, he gets some of the key players in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal to talk to him on camera. But he doesn’t really learn anything from them that hasn’t been covered a thousand times on “60 Minutes” or the Internet. Further, he gets no perspective outside the members of the military directly or indirectly connected to the scandal (plus a couple of civilian contractors). No interviews with Iraqis (victim or otherwise). Only a vague sense of what was really going on. Morris used to be really cutting edge, but frankly this was nowhere near as good as Taxi to the Dark Side. Mildly amusing