Word: melodramas
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...Black Muslim icon Malcolm X. He's played soldiers, policemen, coaches, doctors. He's spoken the words of Shakespeare and Spike Lee. Even as a killer, in American Gangster, he carried himself like a cool chief executive, the mayor of the Harlem underworld. He has the gift of making melodrama seem plausible just because he's doing it. And always in Denzel Washington's screen demeanor is the sense of power withheld, of anger internalized. He doesn't shout or strut, doesn't need to. Why raise your voice when a good stare from that handsome, solemn face will quiet...
...catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane - are shown here in clips, to establish Bob's espionage expertise. Other acrobatics, like the amazing descent down a four-story shopping-mall pole in the original Police Story, Chan reenacts in milder fashion, befitting an elder statesman of knockabout melodrama. Spy's stunt coordinators (Wu Gang, who's worked with Chan for the past decade, and Bob Brown) give the star some hand-to-frying-pan legerdemain in the kitchen, which is just fancy enough to remind you how great Jackie once...
Some passengers noted a mood at security similar to what followed 9/11, only less panicked. "The security is about the same as after 9/11," Filardi said, "but without as much melodrama. After 9/11, they made a big show of guys standing around with assault rifles, but this time it was more businesslike; it all seemed a lot smoother...