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...Generally speaking, when a plot is as convoluted as this one - and it has many more twists and turns than it would be fair to reveal here - we are in soap opera country. And maybe we are, but that reckons without the easy naturalism of Anders Thomas Jensen's script and the brilliance with which it is played by its perfectly cast actors. For a very long time we wonder if what's unfolding on the screen is just a set of very curious coincidences instead of what it obviously is: a carefully rigged scheme by Jorgen, who is keeping...
...GLORY Rated PG-13 Opened March 30 ARE WE DONE YET? Rated PG Opens April 4 WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT Kids find weird toys on the beach that give them strange powers. Trouble with the law ensues Orphan geek boy travels to the future to foil a plot by a nefarious man in a bowler hat Two feuding ice skaters--one rough, one gentle--must work together to have a future The family from Are We There Yet? moves to what seems like a perfect suburban house. WHAT'S IN IT FOR KIDS? The kids save the world...
...networks have learned to adapt The Sopranos' strengths to their own needs and audiences. Lost is, in its adventure-story way, an HBO show in structure, with one complex story played out over years. (In fact, its fans complain, much as Sopranos fans have, that the plot wanders too much and fails to give closure.) And antiheroes? Take your pick: nearly every major Lost character has a criminal or checkered past, from fugitive to druglord to torturer to addict...
...Senate, big business. "There's no head to cut off," one of the perps explains. "This is a conglomerate." With a monopoly on state-sponsored (stateside) terrorism, they apparently can kill whomever gets in their way. Toward the end, one of the villains (Rade Sherbedgia) spills the entire conspiracy plot to Swagger because "This is just one dead man talking to another" - and because, otherwise, we wouldn't have a clue to what's going down...
...need you to plan a presidential assassination," U.S. intelligence honcho Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) tells ex-Marine Gunnery Sgt. and all-round super sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg). It's for the good of the country, of course: Seems that the CIA has a tip on a plot to take a potshot at POTUS; and Swagger, a former Marine Gunnery Sgt. who can nail a gnat from a mile away in a high wind, is just the fellow to get into the mind of the would-be Hinckley and prevent the fourth killing of a U.S. President...