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To start with the latter line of reasoning, a sort of journalistic (and therefore crude) Freudianism, suggest that Ames was never able to fill his father's considerable shoes at the agency, leaving him unfulfilled and disgruntled and in need, therefore, of some dramatic adventure. Carried out to its extreme...
Effort, effort and more effort. It was there. But the execution wasn't. The bottom line: loss.
Harvard will play at Yale next, on Saturday, and the game plan is more of the same--defense, effort, and execution.
Unfortunately, the film takes a wrong turn halfway through. The man slated to die for the cameras insists that he's innocent, and Jessica starts doing a little detective work. The movie at this point shifts from cautionary satire to routine whodunit, and the basic moral issue is made simplistic...
In the age of Lorena Bobbitt and Geraldo Rivera, this is farfetched by only a smidgen. (Who can be certain, in fact, that Geraldo hasn't already done it?) The film takes place in the year 1999, when the crime problem has ratchetted up a few notches. Driving home from...