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...duped hoodlums, a fake story about a close call with the cops; easing from the past tense to the present and then into seductive fantasy, the sequence reveals how we all must be performers, acting for our lives. But most of the movie is Actors Acting: gifted guys (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn) running nattering riffs on familiar lout themes...
Anyway, it stinks of calculation. The film -- about a Reno singer (Whoopi Goldberg) finding refuge from her gangster lover (Harvey Keitel) in a dilapidated convent run by staid Maggie Smith -- allows no room for irony, vagrant inspiration or air. There's something piquant about the look of Whoopi in a wimple, but the star must soar or sink with the vehicle, and this one is a bathysphere. Despite a nice turn by Kathy Najimy as a criminally chirpy nun and some inventive charts by ace arranger Marc Shaiman, Sister Act has corporate fingerprints smudging its smiling face...
...destruction that Thelma and Louise's road inevitably winds. For all the time they have been out there expressing themselves, a posse has been relentlessly closing in on them. By a pleasing irony, it is led by the only thoroughly nice guy in the picture, detective Hal Slocumbe (Harvey Keitel). A patient, sympathetic man, he is this myth's wise father figure. By the time Thelma and Louise finally see him, however, he is one of a small army of cops who have hemmed them in against the top of a sheer canyon wall. Hal advances toward them, arms outstretched...
...only decent male the pair encounter is Hal (Harvey Keitel), the detective leading the chase. Mostly they come across a lunatic variety of hunks and lunks. When the men are not sexually objectifying or exploiting the ladies, they are ripping them off. A convenience-store bandit absconds with their getaway money, but not before teaching Thelma the tricks of his trade. "I feel I've got a knack for this," she muses after knocking over her first grocery store...
...customary to provide a little more detailed summary of the story, giving potential customers some concrete idea of what they're being asked to buy into. Well this time, forget it. What can be reported without hesitation is that there is another Jake, that he is played by Harvey Keitel, and that early in the film he catches his wife (Meg Tilly) in bed with his business partner and rubs him out. After that, you're on your own. In showing that what seems to be a crime of passion is actually one of dispassion, having much more...