The film covers an important subject area, one that should serve as a warning for the future. Unfortunately the film felt rushed and flat. They tried so hard to be like the movie Spotlight, but this film came across more as a check list of events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq than a story about investigative journalists. I didn't care for the characters or their journeys because the film didn't give them room to breathe or develop. It was just like "this source says that" in scene after scene. Whereas Spotlight really showed how investigative journalism works, and how the job affected those reporters, Shock and Awe is just like this stuff happened and it's important. It could have been a great movie, but poor execution and unnaturally shoehorned in exposition to educate the audience hinder the drama of the story.
Review of Shock and Awe
