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...especially disappointing because almost all of the elements for a good film are present: a good director, great actors, an incredible composer, an experienced cinematographer—the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, the studio forgot one major ingredient for a successful film—a good script...
...cruel, vindictive monster. On the other side of the prison bars, General Irwin gradually changes from a passive observer of prison violence into the inmates’ one last chance at salvation. Throw in the compulsory estranged daughter and the usual assortment of martyrs and you have a script that is about as derivative as they come. In fact, its only saving grace is that it actually contains some unexpectedly humorous scenes...
Both Redford and Gandolfini are quite good in their respective roles, and many of the best scenes in the film are simply both actors talking together. Alas, as the script makes them archetypes instead of three-dimensional characters, their performances ultimately feel hollow. The only other character that is somewhat fleshed out is that of inmate Yates (Mark Ruffalo), the prison’s designated bookie. After giving one of last year’s best performances in You Can Count on Me, I was very interested in seeing Ruffalo in a new role. Once again, he gives a solid...
...likeness erected in the Hall of Fame's courtyard for services to dancing. (He also popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance on a sitcom. "A line in the script was 'I thought Chubby Checker was dead!'" he says. "It got me thinking." Problem is, the singer, aerobic-tape shaker and Chubby Checker's Beef Jerky maker hasn't even been inducted yet, let alone invited to be immortally smelted. The Hall, not afraid of big personalities, calls his demand "unreasonable...
...most important is that it was attempted at all. Whatever the deficiencies of the script, the very idea of interrupting a serial drama and using its characters in a one-time-only "play" - for this cause or even a lesser one - is the kind of fresh, quick-response thinking most of TV could use. At the least, it should serve as an example to other creative artists, who've thrown up the white flag, refusing to deal creatively at all with a time that demands their talents, pleading the irrelevance of art at a time like this - which...