The Siege

In this sober cautionary tale masquerading as an action movie, resolutely ethical FBI agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) finds himself at ground zero of an international disaster area. A New York City bus is blown up by Islamic suicide bombers, and further violence is threatened unless one Sheik Ahmed Bin Talal (Ahmed Ben Larby) -- whom the government won't even admit it's holding -- is released. Hubbard's investigation attracts CIA case officer Elise Kraft (Annette Bening), who clearly knows more than she's sharing but has potentially useful connections to the Islamic underground in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, they're not good enough to prevent the bombing of ...