Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Hodge's screenplay is an uncomfortable mix of romantic-comedy cliches, botched-crime scenarios and sudden outbursts of violence that come across as neither funny nor appalling, but merely silly and misplaced. In Trainspotting, Hodge demonstrated his mastery of a technique wherein cartoonish, exaggerated characters interact with frighteningly realistic characters to great comedic and dramatic effect. Here, though, all of the characters are cartoons, and with no contrast (and no reason for the audience to care about them), the film becomes reliant solely on Ewan McGregor's big smile as a lure for audience involvement. McGregor is a handsome...
...Gazecki, the greatest crime by the ATF is misrepresentation of the Branch Davidians and of its own motives. The ATF claimed that the raid on the compound was an anti-drug raid, despite evidence to the contrary. The film goes to great lengths and largely succeeds in laying bare the false intentions...
There were also a few sharp words when Reeves down-played the issue of crime...
...woman, I don't feel safe to walk around Cambridge at night," Triantafillou said, pointing out that while some crime rates have fallen in recent years, instances of rape and domestic violence have...
...example of a crime handled completely by the HUPD involved four Currier residents, who were arrested spring 1996 on drug-dealing charges, McNamara said...