Word: realm
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...falls apart in the context of a film that doubles down on every available Vegas movie cliché, from the brutal, solitary casino owner and his cadre of double-chinned thugs to the gilded-heart hooker. After an innocuous first act, the plot quickly careens into a darker realm that can’t sustain the levity of the two main characters. There is some fine acting in this film, particularly from Paul Sorvino as the outdated singer in the casino lounge, but perhaps The Cooler would have been better served had the bright lights of the Strip not been...
...images of rats running across a fetid swamp and undead hands reaching up from the deep. There's a ghoulish narrator--he sounds as if he could be the host of Count Spooky's Nightmare Theater on a UHF station circa 1965--who reads lines like "This is the realm of darkness" and "The ground is uneasy, and old secrets have begun to rise to the surface." The second is a slightly ham-handed satire of corporate medicine, with Ed Begley Jr. as hospital administrator Dr. Jesse James (get it?) jazzed about the money the rich artist could pump into...
...vast majority of Harvard’s research remains outside the realm of the report’s recommendations on select agents, he said. Bloom said most research on biological toxins involves work only on non-dangerous components...
...expectations, but falls apart in the context of a film that doubles down on every available Vegas movie cliche, from the brutal, solitary casino owner and his cadre of double-chinned thugs to the gilded-heart hooker. After an innocuous first act, the plot quickly careens into a darker realm that can’t sustain the levity of the two main characters. There is some fine acting in this film, particularly from Paul Sorvino as the outdated singer in the casino lounge, but perhaps The Cooler would have been better served had the bright lights of the Strip...
...expectations, but falls apart in the context of a film that doubles down on every available Vegas movie cliche, from the brutal, solitary casino owner and his cadre of double-chinned thugs to the gilded-heart hooker. After an innocuous first act, the plot quickly careens into a darker realm that can’t sustain the levity of the two main characters. There is some fine acting in this film, particularly from Paul Sorvino as the outdated singer in the casino lounge, but perhaps The Cooler would have been better served had the bright lights of the Strip...