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Because it focuses on the single stationary chair lift for three quarters of its running time, the film easily could have given become tiresome to endure. However, though Green lacks a measure of technical freedom due to the airborne nature of the lift, he still manages to capture the protagonists’ plight from a multitude of angles, which makes the movie constantly engaging on a visual level. Green’s imaginative directing is one of the greatest strengths of the film and is the main reason why it works...
...movie is a mix of action, comedy, policier, and of course, romance. Many movies try to cross genre boundaries to reach a larger audience, and Morel is no exception. But his approach is confused, and given the seriousness of one thematic element it tries to weave in—that of terrorism and suicide bombings—that confusion proves detrimental to the film as a whole...
...Given the racial profiling going on in America against Arabs, and more relevantly, the current controversy regarding burqas in France, this plot development is a sensitive one that deserves to be handled with care, and it’s here that the mixture of comedy and action becomes a problem. The comedy seems to sound at the wrong points; Charlie’s unerring deductions seem a testament to defamatory racial stereotypes. The only attempt to bring attention to the fact that the Pakistanis in the film should not be judged as a group happens during a dinner party. Charlie...
...Kristin Lavransdatter” (Sigrid Undset’s Nobel-Prize winning historical romance set in 14th century Norway) after the first sentence, “When the earthly goods of Ivar Gjesling the Younger of Sundbu were divided up in the year 1306, his property at Sil was given to his daughter Ragnfrid and her husband Lavrans Bjorgulfson.” Perhaps I was unfair to Ms. Undset, but I do not regret my escape for a moment...
Harvard was given a series of gifts early on, as Northeastern was called for three penalties in the first period—including back-to-back penalties to Chris Donovan and Mike Hewkin to give the Crimson 86 seconds of 5-on-3 play...