02.07.11
Iranium — short review
Iranium, the movie aimed at getting the bombers and cruise missiles flying toward Iran, rates a solid B when divorced from its obvious politics, mostly for watchability as a History Channel style documentary.
There are much worse ways to burn an hour.
A history of Iran dating from the Shah is delivered first. And at about the thirty five minute mark, the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy shows up, led by Frank Gaffney but also including people you’ve seem from embedded YouTube video at DD blog already.
The Cult explains electromagnetic pulse attack is the way Ahmedinajad will accomplish his stated aim of ending American civilization. And then one is delivered animations of a Scud missile fired over the US from a motorized barge 100-miles offshore. (Or suitcase nukes could be brought across the Mexican border. There is literally nothing that’s out of Iranian reach.)
Nine out of ten Americans dead within a year.
The movie’s only potential show-stopping flaw is Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis whose once good reputation was rotted during the Bush years by various public views taken on war and imminent catastrophe.
The unfortunate catarrhal phlegm gurgling and flapping in Lewis’ throat had me about ready to sick up at one point. It has to be heard. The sound man must’ve been in tears.
The short message of the movie is that Iran is a menace to the entire world. Similar to the Soviet Union and the old popular domino theory, it stands ready to invade/infiltrate/influence countries from the south side of the Persian Gulf to Argentina. Yes, Argentina!
The movie makes it case by relying on the words of its religious leaders and Ahmedinajad. And they have always helpfully come off as both mean and nuts.
Iranium sells itself slightly short by over-reliance on Cliff May. He’s onscreen a great deal near the end, undermining the movie with a lack of recognition factor.
Unless you read the Ventura County Star, about the only newspaper in the country to regularly run his opinion pieces.
Iranium — the movie — is here. Totally G-rated. And it’s free for the time being.
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