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 		Starring:
Emily Mortimer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Martini, Rebecca Pidgeon,
C…
Review:
No writer knows how a con game ticks better than David Mamet.
He’s proved it repeatedly as a playwright (Glengarry Glen
Ross, American Buffalo) and a filmmaker (House of
Games, The Spanish Prisoner). So you sense a sting in
Redbelt when Mamet zooms in on ethics in the person of
Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Gulf War veteran who runs a
jujitsu studio in L.A. according to strict samurai code. To Mike,
there’s shame in competition, which puts him up against the
American way as he is prodded to go for the jackpot on the
mixed-martial-arts circuit. Though MMA figures in Redbelt,
Mamet, who studied jujitsu for five years, is more interested in
the philosophy that understanding will defeat strength. With
uncanny skill, Mamet directs the movie like a moral combat sport in
which a variety of…


Rating: 3 Stars