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...plot, as convoluted as it becomes after the first 40 minutes, is as such: Domino kicks butt as a bounty hunter alongside her boss Ed (Mickey Rourke) and his angry lackey Choco (Edgar Ramirez); their corrupt bail bondsmen employer and his entourage of “sassy black women” create a scam to raise money for their dying baby; they accidentally double-cross a mob boss and a corrupt businessman, requiring an even more illogical scam; and, simultaneously, Christopher Walken attempts to make a reality show about Domino...
Kelly’s penchant for absurd plot construction, which won over college-aged cult fans in “Donnie Darko,” simply serves to overcomplicate an already thinly stretched concept. At the unnecessary and melodramatic sexuality between Domino and Choco (Domino was actually bisexual), a plot twist involving Afghani liberation, and the segment on “The Jerry Springer Show,” one can’t help but think: “What the hell was the point of that? Go back to showing half-naked Keira shooting Vietnamese thugs...
...reverse, from the breakup to their first kiss. The two reveries intersect only briefly at the middle—just long enough for Jamie and Catherine to kiss, sway, and say, “I do.” This circular structure leaves little room for serious character or plot development, and the audience doesn’t glean much beyond the basic facts. We learn that he’s a talented and popular young writer with a big ego (“I left Columbia and I don’t regret it / I wrote a book...
...just couldn't figure out what to do with it. When The Producers came calling, it was hardly a sure thing. A screen-to-stage adaptation of a Mel Brooks comedy three decades old, it has no hit songs and very little in the way of witty dialogue. The plot is tinsel-thin: Max, a crooked Broadway producer, and his nerdy accountant Leo concoct a scheme to make millions off a show that's calculated to flop...
PHILIP ROTH, 72 A rare literary giant, his work (The Human Stain, The Plot Against America) has got better and more relevant as he has aged...