Word: sydney
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DIRECTOR: SYDNEY POLLACK...
...often though, Sydney Pollack, whose swank and care energized the Redford thriller Three Days of the Condor in 1975, surrenders to genre goofiness, setting up bad guys who are omnipotent at the start and impotent at the end. Like a complex lawsuit, the movie gets buried in paperwork; there's too much walking and talking. (See Tom think. See Tom brood. See Tom make photocopies. See Tom amble across his living room -- in slow motion.) And at the end, too much running and gunning. Maybe every thriller demands a chase, but a clever thriller deserves a better one. On that...
Those who were big fans of the book and who are book-to-movie purists will have some problems with director Sydney Pollack's big-screen version. For the first two-thirds of the movie, the basic framework of the book's plot is retained, but the intervening details are changed. Readers who enjoyed the plumbing of Mitch's thoughts will be disappointed--we see only Cruise's actions. Some scenes are left in. Others are cut. Still others, such as a free-flowing montage of the offers Mitch receives from other law firms upon graduation, are nowhere...
...Woman of the Inner Sea, the intrigues and excesses of Sydney society provide delicious background and important plotting points. But the scenes are thin beside Kate's semi-legendary transformation into a tough bird of the outback. Keneally's long delay in revealing details about the death of Kate's children is a deliberate tease and annoyance...
...Sydney Pollack picture is based on John Grisham's best-selling novel of the same name...