It's too bad Costa-Gavras hooked up with the appalling Joe Eszterhas for this sociopolitical thriller. A movie that attacks the white supremacist movement was a great idea, but this movie is far, far from great. Characters are inconsistent and thinly drawn; motivations are foggy; every point is pounded home. Depicting these racist pigs as regular, ordinary Americans was on the money, and John Mahoney and Jeffrey DeMunn are excellent. But the movie is obvious and forced, turning an important idea into mere hackneyed melodrama.
