Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Movies: Review: Moore, Gibson films share traits

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Movies: Review: Moore, Gibson films share traits: "Interviews with Oregon state troopers, lamenting how woefully understaffed they are, are memorable because these are just regular guys, looking into a camera and telling their stories.

Some of the most compelling moments come from a mother in Flint, Mich. - Moore's hometown - whose son, a soldier, died in Iraq in a Black Hawk helicopter crash. (Moore lets her subsequent emotional meltdown in front of the White House, though, play too long and it ends up feeling maudlin and manipulative.)

Then he ends the film the same way he began it - with footage of Bush and other administration officials having the faces made up, their hair sprayed and microphones clipped on before appearing on television. (Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz looks especially vain when he licks his comb and then runs it through his thick, dark hair.)

The intention, presumably, is to make the nation's leaders look more concerned with superficiality than substance. But everyone needs to primp a bit before going under the white-hot lights for TV interviews - even Democrats, and even the typically rumpled Moore himself."

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