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...those "irresistible" hysterics who love life so ferociously their hugs would smother it at birth. This romantic comedy is just as pushy, and a disaster. All its desperate plot maneuvers (Ben and Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style. And why do the three stars look so drawn and pocky? Well, it had to come sometime: this is DreamWorks' first reprehensible fiasco...
...know what she is, Guy, but what are you? The next Mr. Quentin Tarantino? Probably not: Ritchie's idea of film pizazz is to dip into his TV commercials bag of fast-mo, slo-mo and stop-mo, until you may cry out, "No mo'." The movie is frolicsome but pushy, the triumph of flash over style. But for narrative savvy and direction of actors, Ritchie is up there with...
...might argue, that don't strictly need filling--with onscreen commercial loops. Will they influence your purchasing decisions? Perhaps. But how likely would you be to buy a product when your ATM erases any record of your deposit because it's paying more attention to showing you a dreamy, slo-mo image of a new car slaloming through racing cones than it is to processing your transaction...
Kaye, a Brit who shoots the film with familiar pizazz (low-angle shots, portentous slo-mo, some black-and-white scenes), made his name directing TV commercials in Europe. What's not clear is the product on sale here. It seems to be brotherhood among the races. But David McKenna's script is either cunningly ambiguous or desperately muddled. In racially torn Venice Beach, Calif., the neo-Nazis are pathetic lowlifes, crying out for our contempt. And of course Nazism is a thug ideology. Yet much of the film's violence is committed by blacks; most of the victims...
...Crimson finished the match with 80 kills and 86 digs. Jellison again was the spark, finishing with 22 kills. HARVARD 2 CAL POLY-SLO 3 HARVARD 3 ST. MARY...