The movie stars Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Sleepless in Seattle), Chris Pine (Star Trek 2009, Small Town Saturday Night), Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Dogma), Eliza Dushku (Open Graves, City By the Sea), Bradley Whitford (The West Wing tv, Philadelphia), Dennis Farina (Saving Private Ryan, Thief), Miguel Sandoval (Medium tv, Do the Right Thing), and Danny DeVito (Taxi tv, War of the Roses) I missed him in the film.
The plot of the movie is Rickman plans a wine tasting competition between the France and some upstart California vineyards. Its based on actual events.
The movie grabbed me from the start. It had a good "theme" song running through the movie. The start of the movie I got the idea that the Americans were true upstarts with nothing to lose. I have seen Chris Pine in three things now and he has been good in all three. I dont think he is playing the same character in all three but he has been enjoyable in all three.
The movie looses its momentum in the mddle of the movie. I usually dont like movies based on real events, 13 Days being a good example of movies I dont like. They have to skip so much that it is something I just dont like most of the time. This one was a little better then most fact based movies.
Im ratng this movie as a C+ with a slight reconmentation to watch it.
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