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Arlington Road

Arlington Road is a moderately paced thriller about a professor of history, a man with a pet course on catching terrorists, who suspects that he neighbour is planning to bomb something.  He digs into the neighbour's past and discovers things that lead him on a chase to find the truth but what that is seems totally up in the air.  The story starts on a wide circling path that slowly begins to corkscrew tighter and tighter.  Is it all for real or is the professor just fuelling his own paranoia caused by his intimacy with the lives of famous terrorists.

Arlington Road is well directed, fairly engaging through the slow build up, and pretty exciting when it all comes together.  As a matter of preference the blurry scenes in the beginning while apt are distracting and thankfully end before too long.  Jeff Bridges is excellent as the professor but Tim Robbins seems flat in comparison as the suspcioned neighbour.  Overall though the movie is well scripted and does not disappoint.  If there is one serious gripe to be had it would be the insistence of portraying women as reality revisionists and men as incapable of dropping a topic;  a paired stereotype that so terribly pervades these types of films.

Arlington Road's visuals are ho hum as with a lot of films.  Nothing stands out to say that yeah this aspect of a visually defined media was important.  However those who do not pay attention will not see anything amiss.  As to the musical score it is properly maintained throughout the film and fulfils its role well.  Despite the criticisms above this is a good movie and well worth the time and heightened pulse rate.

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