Review – Uncivil Liberties

Yeesh, what a boring movie! The premise might have had some potential. In a not-too-distant future, the whole “homeland security” thing has turned our country into a police state. The resistance movement targets one of the government’s top computer security experts for assassination. But when the shooter can’t pull the trigger, folks from both sides of the conflict end up alienated from their groups. The problem here lies in the execution. This is a cheap, shot-on-video picture, which shouldn’t automatically doom it. Bad acting doesn’t help, but again it isn’t automatic death either. What kills it are the long scenes of people standing around in their cubes at work talking standard office nonsense or otherwise engaged in dull, everyday activity. If I want to look at that kind of thing, I can just go to work. Perhaps the director thought this would add a sense of realism to his show, but instead it turns the movie into a five-minute pat of butter spread over a feature-length loaf of bread. See if desperate