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...well-done. His shots of the grand St. Benedict’s Academy are beautifully composed as he effectively uses different settings to tailor the mood for specific exchanges and dialogs. Unfortunately, these positive aspects of the film are not enough to compensate for the serious flaws in the script. The Emperor’s Club does little to distinguish itself from any other “great teacher” movie, largely because the story focuses excessively on the relationship between Sedgewick and Hundert without ever really probing into each of their personal lives outside of the classroom...
...Fuhrman--as interpreted by Fuhrman--is a driven detective, frustrated by the Greenwich cops (he says they're "brain dead," lazy and afraid to offend their rich patrons) and an unforgiving world. We know that he is "the convicted perjurer who helped set O.J. Simpson free"--because the clumsy script has someone say it 15 seconds after he appears--but we get few details about his disgrace until late in the movie. By then, Murder has cast him as a persecuted working stiff. "Say 'nigger,' Detective Fuhrman!" a rich kid taunts him, as if teasing the help. The true star...
Meloni transcends the script, playing Fuhrman slyly, as a charismatic boor with a lizardy grin. But his performance only reminds us what the story could have been if told by someone not so close to the hero. As it is, it's a trite but inadvertently intriguing whodunit about a bitter adolescent whose vanity and resentment make him act out in ugly ways. Oh, and it's about Michael Skakel too. --By James Poniewozik
Writers Purvis and Wade, both big Fleming fans, were happy to go back to the books. They returned with a script that put 007 in tense, compromised positions. They also added what Wade calls "nerdy stuff that only five fans will note"--a few lines echoing Fleming's texts and dozens of references to movies past. These are meant to be cues, Purvis says, to "remind us of where Bond is coming from...
...Michelle Yeoh and the enigmatic French actress Sophie Marceau. At MGM, 007's financier and U.S. distributor, vice chairman Chris McGurk insists that "everything is really mutual in terms of approvals," but the studio's only contractual power is to green-light (or not) a film. All else, from script to cast to crew...