Vivian isn’t the only character pulled from the Idiot’s Guide to Stock Characters. Panetta represented only by phone), an equally trite character, who keeps saying things like, “I need more evidence.” This is what passes for ancillary plot. William Fichtner plays her immediate supervisor (with Defense Secretary Leon E. After a prisoner in Guantanamo gives up a name that belongs to an Al Qaeda courier, she has him tracked, discovers the mysterious Pakistani compound and is soon insisting - correctly, as it turns out - that the 6-foot-5 guy strolling around behind the walls is Bin Laden. Vivian is clearly the Carrie stand-in here.
But, honestly, do we always have to go blond hottie behind smarty-pants glasses for roles like these? (At least in “Homeland,” Claire Danes’ comely CIA agent Carrie has a genuine mental illness. Including and especially, Vivian Hollins a female CIA analyst played by Kathleen Robertson in lip gloss and pencil skirts.Īccording to “No Easy Day,” a first-person account written by real-life former SEAL Team Six member Matt Bissonnette under the pseudonym Mark Owen, there was indeed a key female analyst involved in promoting the mission, and possibly she is quite young and attractive. The film’s most troubling aspect is the cartoonish nature of these characters, who get the lion’s share of screen time. It’s one thing to engage in a little “loosely based” fudging about the court of Marie Antoinette or even the rescue of American Embassy workers in 1979. And perhaps for a moment our nation will be united on one point: The president’s screen time, which, frankly, does not seem excessive, is the least of this film’s problems.ĭocu-dramas are often dicey enterprises, especially when they involve a) classified material, b) political assassination, and c) an event that occurred in recent memory. There were accusations that the timing - days before the election - and the late-hour insertion of additional footage of the president, including a voice-over describing the decision-making process, were designed to boost Obama’s reelection bid.ĭespite subsequent protests from the network and the filmmakers, the partisan kerfuffle can work only to their advantage no doubt more people will watch “SEAL Team Six” in light of the mild controversy. Some fuss was recently made over the role President Obama plays in “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” a docu-drama premiering on National Geographic Channel on Sunday.
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