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...weekend were thrillers starring women: David Fincher's Panic Room, with Jodie Foster besieged by three burglars, and Carl Franklin's High Crimes, in which lawyer Ashley Judd defends her enigmatic husband in a high-stakes court-martial. This week in Murder by Numbers, Sandra Bullock plays a cop on a homicide investigation that points to two brilliant teenagers. And on Memorial Day weekend, Jennifer Lopez provides a Star Wars alternative with the spousal revenge drama Enough...
...makeshift airplane cabin set up in a hotel conference room and pulled items from a cardboard box. "I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...
...clichéd role, Bullock’s female cop seems constantly plagued by PMS when compared to her more relaxed colleagues and superiors. While she sticks firmly to her gut feeling that the boys are guilty, the rest of the police force ignores her and follows the boys’ lead to a scapegoat victim...
...movie seems to be nothing more than a two-hour pity party, with Bullock chauvinistic fellow cops and her largely ignored insistence that the boys are the killers. To top off all these stereotypical rendering s of the glass ceiling, the film provides an unneeded and often distracting portrayal of Mayweather’s past—replete with an abusive husband that made her a cop hungry for revenge. These stories, however, do not seem especially relevant to the plot insofar as they detract from an interesting murder investigation...
...vessel has been used to transport weapons from al-Qaeda to the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines and to Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna. But while the U.S. is trying to portray itself as "bad cop" and "a menacing hard-ass," according to one Western diplomat in Colombo, Prabhakaran last week publicly called their bluff. "We do not think America would intervene," he said dismissively. "We are not Muslims...