An Irish terrorist — played by A-List Oscar nominee and Al Gore’s Harvard roommate (and frequent contributor to Democrats) Tommy Lee Jones — is intent on a revenge-driven bombing attack on a member of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
The movie hero — played by Jeff Bridges — seeks to stop Jones.
In the lead up, Jones’s character sets off bombs in various parts of Boston — bombs that contain ball bearings designed to explode as shrapnel — just as the real bombs in Boston did this past Monday. The film contains this very graphic attack (as seen here), which the film’s hero — actor Bridges — frantically and unsuccessfully seeks to prevent. Here is the scene with the Boston Pops, the climax of the film. (Spoiler alert, Jeff Bridges saves the day.)
Here too is the film’s trailer with Jones, in an Irish accent, telling Bridges in a phone call that “I’ve come here to create a new country for you called chaos, and a new government called anarchy. All for you.” As bomb-driven violence explodes on the screen, there is a quick image of Bridges’ love interest, actress Suzy Amis, playing her violin with the Boston Pops — and all of this spectacular violence is accompanied by a chorus singing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as one bomb after another explodes all over Boston.
