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Tough cops, car chases, killer bots--the sci-fi action-movie format is starting to rust. Director Alex Proyas used to be able to spiff up the genre; his Dark City and The Crow created vivid, lurid nightscapes. This time, even given a lavishly muscled superstar and a murder plot with a soft heart (Sonny is a member of a minority the prejudiced cop has to learn to love), the gifted visualist goes all pedestrian and impersonal...
...Tough cops, car chases, killer bots - the sci-fi action-movie format is starting to rust. Director Alex Proyas used to be able to spiff up the genre; his Dark City and The Crow created vivid, lurid nightscapes. This time, even given a lavishly muscled superstar and a murder plot with a soft heart (Sonny is a member of a minority the prejudiced cop has to learn to love), the gifted visualist goes all pedestrian and impersonal...
...Alex Slack ’06, a history concentrator in Leverett House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. This summer, he is enjoying $0.50 beers in Lebanon while conducting interviews for a non-profit. If you want to read more about his adventures, go to www.aslacker.com...
...Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Aparisim Ghosh/Baghdad and Alex Perry/New Delhi
...Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...