The new Jason Statham film isn't about war, but it uses wartime insecurities as an excuse to break bones and blow stuff up. No; the Jason Statham vehicle pits him not against stereotypical evil Muslims or North Koreans, but rather against stereotypical evil meth-selling "Rednecks" Rather than the War on Terror we get the War on Drugs, set in a backwoods Louisiana setting that nods to the rural grotesque of Deliverance, with banjo music updated to terrible pseudo-metal. The reason "Homefront" resonates with the War on Terror is because the War on Terror, wherever it takes place in the world, is driven by the determination to protect U.S. civilians. The film's catchy, currents-events-evoking title may be trying to tell us that if an action movie is a genre with its own self-justifying pleasures, then so, perhaps, and chillingly, is war.
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