Perfect cast and a good story

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A Brilliant Conflict

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

CNN producer Robert Wiener, his colleague and their crew venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War. I knew that Live from Baghdad was going to win me over just from that Epic Opening in the Movie Theater, the characters that we get introduced to such as Robert Wiener played by the amazing and talented Michael Keaton who does an extraordinary job or Ingrid Formanek played by the also amazing Helena Bonham Carter and the rest of the cast that goes on and on every single character and actor in this film is fantastic. The direction that the film takes is terrific and there's intense threw out every scene from interviews to even just simple conversations between our characters. The soundtrack also brings a much more dramatic vibe to this already black and white film that you're introduced to. Beautiful dialogue, a terrific based on real life events and a extraordinary and talented cast make Live from Baghdad a Must See for every Fan out there. It's also a very inspiring film about a few brave souls that chose to even 'sacrifice' their lives for the TRUTH.

If you like Michael Keaton and you're used to him being funny (which he is), you will be surprised and impressed at his ability to play it serious. The subject is serious, and what happened to the actual people this movie is based on, is really serious, and the ensemble in this movie work well together. They bring in excellent, very believable performances. Helena Bonham-Carter is superb and "bounces" off Keaton well. They have a wonderful "friendship"; someone to talk to in the midst of an upcoming war that no one can stop. The special effects are "dead on" and the viewer will feel as though they are there. David Suchet, the lovable and brilliant Hercule Perot(sp?), will amaze you, again, at his ability to play a role so different than so many he's done. His acting in this film is also "dead on" and you have to empathize with Suchet's character and Keaton's. They are caught in a situation where neither one wants to be. Enjoy this one. You will.

This is in response to all those who are criticizing this movie as "disinformation" or biased because it presented the "baby incubator" story as true. I don't believe this is so. It simply presented how it looked at that time when people were trying to figure out if the story was true.Also: o At the end of the movie, a disclaimer is displayed: "While the allegations of Iraqi soldiers taking babies from incubators were widely circulated during the run-up to the Gulf War (the time frame of the drama of our film), these allegations would later prove to be untrue." o They do say that CNN ran the story at the time (i.e., incubators were there, the babies looked fine), and given that the film had taken such pains to show that they were ethical journalists, we should assume that they were acting ethically then also.

It's impossible to distinguish whether Live From Baghdad is a completely true story, but the cast and the location shooting (done in California and Morocco) is excellent. The most interesting part is when CNN reporter Robert Weiner (Michael Keaton) goes to interview the head of Iraq's Ministry of Communications, who later became the Iraqi Minister of Propaganda (something like that) and gained the nickname "Baghdad Bob" because of his televised tirades against the U.S. during the recent 2003 Gulf War. He kept insisting to the Iraqi people that U.S. troops were not in control of Iraq, even after they made their way into Baghdad. He was later arrested by U.S. forces, but the charges were eventually dismissed, and now he's another civilian caught up in his homeland's ongoing chaos.Rating: ***