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...skeptical. Last summer, I had read Brown’s earlier novel, “Deception Point,” which is decently entertaining but profoundly unremarkable. The sophomore effort features plenty of shadowy government officials, unbelievable technology, and pretzel-shaped plot twists, but the book is standard fare...
...answer is, very. The business of the film is to explain why this amiable hunk is being circled by spooky Mr. Goodkat (a tight-lipped Bruce Willis), a wise-guy cop (Stanley Tucci) and two crime lords (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman). To call the film's plot labyrinthine is to understate the case. To say it works out with complete plausibility is to overstate it. Still, the story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been...
EMMA ROBERTS is on the case. The star of Nickelodeon's Unfabulous and the new movie Aquamarine--who shares the broad, screen-ready smile of her aunt Julia (yes, that Julia)--plays the preppy, resourceful teen sleuth in next year's movie Nancy Drew. The plot has Nancy joining her dad on a business trip to Los Angeles and finding herself (by golly!) probing the death of a movie star. Roberts, 15, calls her character, first introduced in novels in the 1930s, "the Barbie of her time," meaning, we suppose, an icon. Either that or a well-dressed gal with...
...soirée. Perhaps its trickiest feat is balancing two distinct storylines: a cop movie (the police are the good guys and the drama is behind the barricades) and a heist movie (the robbers are the good guys and the fun is in seeing them pull off their convoluted plot). It is hard to cheer for both sides at once, but the movie makes it possible (no telling who wins in the end, though) by directing all our antipathy towards another, separate villain (who happens to have Nazi ties...
...surprising connections between characters strain believability at times, but remember, we’re dealing with a fundamentally implausible genre—the fun is in each side trying to outmaneuver the other, and in the twists and turns of the plot, not in whether the plot is realistic. At least the technology used by each side actually exists (there’s even a crack about how one fancy gadget can probably be found on Amazon...