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Martial Law concerns Sammo Law, a detective from Shanghai, played by Hung, who has been assigned to the Los Angeles police department. In many ways it is an old-fashioned cop show, with crude plots and characterizations--but this actually makes it a pleasure to watch since it provides a B-movie charge and doesn't require the viewer to care about anyone's alcoholism or love life. What makes Martial Law distinct though is its intricate, speed-of-light action sequences and its humor, and these both derive from the talents of Hung, who has been a star...
Though outrageous and crude, the jokes in the Farrelly Brothers' most recent sideshow attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else seems to have had a ball. Whatever there is about Mary, I didn't really get it. --Nicholas K. Davis
Though outrageous and crude, the jokes in the Farrelly Brothers' most recent sideshow attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else seems to have...
Outrageous and crude though its humor often is, the jokes in the Farrelly Brothers' most recent sideshow attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from really lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else...
Hardly a day goes by when some Wall Street analyst doesn't knock the oil-services industry. These companies, which help the oil giants explore and drill for crude and natural gas, were market darlings from 1995 to 1997, but now have more detractors than anything west of Indonesia. Though many oil-service firms are already trading near two-year lows, analysts' earnings estimates for them will soon be revised further downward. No brokerage will want the likes of Halliburton or Schlumberger on its "recommended" list. The gloom around these stocks is only deepening. And I am buying them hand...