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The Siege
1998
· Movie
· 116 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4086
- IMDb #3673
- Rotten Tomatoes #3822
- Metacritic #3033
- Letterboxd #3849
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4113
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3818
- Metacritic Critics #3134
- Metacritic Audience #2746
- Criticker #2445
- Kinopoisk #3580
- AlloCiné #4252
- Trakt #3291
Every rating
41–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 41, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 48, everyone else 62.
See the most agreed on films →After a series of devastating terrorist attacks in New York City, the U.S. government declares martial law and sends the Army into Brooklyn to imprison all Arab-American males. An FBI agent must work with a CIA operative to find the real terrorists and prevent more attacks before the military's heavy-handed tactics ignite a larger conflict.
Details
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Writers
- Edward Zwick, Lawrence Wright, Menno Meyjes
- Released
- 6 November 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $70.0M
- Box office
- $116.7M
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