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...this is a deal like almost any other, isn't it? So what would Tom do if he were confronting a clever, intractable opponent across a workaday bargaining table? Why, storm out of the room of course, shouting that the negotiations were concluded. In this case Tom goes on television and angrily informs the kidnappers that he is going to post the $2 million as a reward for their apprehension...
Rudenstine's returns to Princeton was apparently a success. "It was a very clever speech, very much appreciated by the audience," Harmin said...
...with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...
...sweet mix of cunning and convention. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave star Geena Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side and uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist. Writer Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped...
That is in the ladies' clever and gutsy scheme to separate $2 million from Ceasar (Joe Pantoliano), who is keeping Violet. He's a hateful lout, so there are multiple pleasures to be found in watching him being maneuvered toward comeuppance by characters everyone can love as underdogs. The Wachowskis have the predilection for loopy camera setups common to first-time directors, but their hearts are in the right transgressive place, and their film will tide some of us over until Quentin gets...well...unbound...