The possibility that the makers of The Siege deliberately set out to make a bad film from a good idea is preposterous, yet it's hard to come to any other conclusion. Why else would they take a plot that promises to confront such weighty and worthy topics as racism and civil liberty and then produce a trite story mapped out in crayon with a kindergarten world-view of goodies and baddies? But were we ever going to get anything but a quick-fix solution to the problem of international terrorism from the country that produced Independence Day?
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