'Valley of Elah' looks great!

[babylonsister]

Tommy Lee Jones ready for any 'Elah' fallout


By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY
Tommy Lee Jones is so ready for a fight he doubts there'll be much of one.

His new crime drama, In the Valley of Elah, centers on the death of a soldier who returns home from the Iraq war, and the story aims to raise serious questions about how the United States is treating its men and women in uniform.

In the film, based on a true story, Jones plays a former military police investigator trying to find out why his son was brutally murdered. He comes to believe the war he once supported has misused and discarded its warriors, placing young heroes in a climate of fear and death that turns the ill-trained among them damaged and dangerous.

The movie's questions about Iraq are certain to provoke pro-war pundits and politicians, but mentioning that makes Jones even more defiant. Did he feel any fear about fallout from the movie?

"No, I didn't feel any fear about taking on this film at all," he says, pronouncing the word like it is ridiculous.

Jones, 60, has kept quiet about politics for seven years. The last — and maybe only — time he said anything was during the 2000 Democratic National Convention, when he made a speech supporting Al Gore, a Harvard friend. He says he'd vote for Gore again but adds tersely: "You don't know what my politics are."

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-09-11-tommy-lee-jones_N.htm

[Mythsaje]

1. Right on!

He's right. We don't know what his politics are. Well, we can hazard a guess or two.

[Coexist]

2. check the trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43oIvSJdugk

[SteppingRazor]

3. That's good. I didn't have much hope for it.

Written-directed by Paul Haggis, who wrote/directed the execrable Crash and the maudlin Million Dollar Baby.

But, he also did the scripts for the two Eastwood WWII pics, which weren't too bad.