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The Siege

...The Siege is a great urban thriller, a movie that understands the pulse of a city and its environs, that uses its locations to emphasise the tension and paranoia of its plot.

Denzel Washington has a good speech where he observes that the enemy doesn't have to destroy our liberties if we do it for ourselves.

With a grim realism and a slow progression of events that seems entirely plausible, The Siege postulates what might happen if an American city becomes the target of international terrorists.

...director and cowriter Edward Zwick isn't interested in the cool accoutrements of high-tech espionage (...) He's interested in how quickly frightened people will compromise their constitutional rights in the interests of safety...

It's a cautionary tale about the excesses of jingoistparanoia...