Review of Beirut (2018) by Robin E — 18 Dec 2018
My second Rosamund Pike in the Middle East movie this month, and fortunately, this one is quite good.. John Hamm is so watchable, even as he sinks into alcoholism and despair. He's given a redemptive mission, with great reluctance, and his old guile leaps back into action so that he can negotiate for the return of his former colleague from the PLO.
There may be too much everyone-is-to-blame for the collapse of the city into chaos, and I would have preferred some additional background material (the kind most critics hate, calling it "confusing") about the Lebanese civil war.
But what you do get here is very well done.
This review of Beirut (2018) was written by Robin E on 18 Dec 2018.
Beirut has generally received positive reviews.
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