Writer-director Richard Shepard's follow-up to his breakthrough feature THE MATADOR (2005) is a dismal misfire that attempts to make black comedy out of the adventures of war correspondents and the dirty business of international politics.
Once a legendary daredevil who followed trouble from one war zone to another, Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) had a spectacular on-air meltdown while reporting from Bosnia's killing fields and vanished from the public eye. His cameraman, Duck (Terrence Howard), rode Hunt's coattails to a cushy job shooting fatuous network anchorman Franklin Harris (James Brolin) and only rarely misses the adrenaline rush of covering death and de...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins