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...says Schoolboy, "given how we lied on the probable cause, I'd say that almost all of our [2,233] arrests were bad. On the other hand, if we did everything by the book, crime would be up. Stealing the money was bad. No excuse for that, and none for the beatings either, especially when you have someone in cuffs. But frankly, I'm proud of the arrests. It may sound crazy, but what we did was kind of noble, I think. I mean, cops everywhere keep being told they're in a war. You're told...
...insurance] is only for catastrophic occurrences, none of which we've had in my tenure here, so as far as I know we've never collected," she said...
...blockbuster crowd, a generally warm-weather group, likes familiarity. They so love it when a movie has a number at the end of its title that, in cases like ID4, they will actually add one where none exists. They like attractive, squabbling, invariably "brilliant" scientists who do stupid things: piss off dinosaurs, drive into tornadoes, piss off dinosaurs AGAIN. Plus, these people hate Emma Thompson, because she was in that dumb pregnant-man movie with their pal Ah-nuld. What was up with that...
...when such heights are not reached, the movie degenerates into the plain vanilla horror's episodic nature of red herrings and and-then-there-were-none character elimination. The self-aware cleverness of the movie's premise survives only in spirit, as the events pale in comparison: we feel gypped, but then the movie just set impossible standards for itself...
Francis Ford Coppola missteps in a heavy-handed moralistic mess that has none of the storytelling grace he's displayed on happier occasions. In fact, he's succeeded in making John Grisham--the king of popcorn thrillers--lethally boring. There is no shameless entertainment here, no chance to be swept up in instant thrills. Instead, we see Matt Damon lost in two hours of disjointed storytelling without a touch of drama...