If Hollywood types are going to bank on their silver screen credentials by shooting TV commercials, shouldn't their ads be judged accordingly? In this installment, Radar's Spot Reviews parses Vietnam vet Oliver Stone's ad for moveon.org, "Video Vets: Bring Our Troops Home." The 30-second spot shows a pink-faced, all-American Iraq veteran named John Bruhns speaking soberly about his wartime experience. "To keep American solders in Iraq for an indefinite period of being attacked by an unidentifiable enemy is wrong, immoral, and irresponsible," Bruhns says, looking directly into the camera.
We gathered film critics Nathan Rabin of the Onion's A.V. Club, Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Colin Covert of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and asked them to handle Stone like the Natural Born (critical) Killers they are.