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...lite) and the tempting females, one blond (Ivana Milicevic) and one brunet (the criminally alluring Eva Green). It means that the focus of the plot must be ... a card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand and your multimillion-dollar stake. But dramatically there's something lacking in a movie climax that needs the hero to be holding higher cards than the villain. Luck is not fate...
FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES...
With clean-cut sponsors like Tide, the U.S. Army and Nextel fueling NASCAR's multibillion-dollar engine, stock-car racing's seedy past has been buried beneath the track. Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history. Painting NASCAR as "the accidental sport of Southern moonshiners," he recounts wildly entertaining stories of how late-1930s racing pioneers like Lloyd Seay, who was later murdered by his cousin, and "Reckless" Roy Hall, a jailbird, honed their craft during bootlegging runs, dodging the law on dusty Georgia back roads...
...will be disappointed. The director isn’t Spike Jonze; it’s Jim Jones. Although he has nothing new to display, he plays show and tell. We get to see his cars and his jet plane; his women and his pool; also several of his dollar bills, which are generously offered up for the camera’s perusal. It’s clear Jones prefers basketball to football. “Ballin!” goes the hook, and Jones does exhibit a nice stroke. He remixed the song for the Giants, but it?...
...bear on the party with the smallest share of the blame. Even if we don’t have a silver bullet for Sudan, we should at least understand that the problem we face has everything to do with others’ bullets, and not just with our dollar bills...