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...villainous baby’s mamas, but their interaction with the actual kidnapping is never clear. Pita’s mother has hysterics that belong in a Mystic River, not this profoundly reserved effort: she quickly becomes no more than annoying. Why is unfazeable do-gooder journalist Mariana (Rachel Ticotin) so well-connected, and why don’t some of the uber-powerful villains follow through on their threats against her? Why is Scott Free productions fixture Giancarlo Giannini so damn cool as Mariana’s bed-buddy / uncorruptable, play-by-his-own-rules Mexican...
...women in this film, Laura Martinez (Rachel Ticotin) and Bonnie Martin (Ally Walker) also have no depth. They are props, supporting their husbands without the will to stand up for their own rights and beliefs. Laura leaves her husband when she discovers he has cheated on her, but the moment he brings her flowers and candy, she runs back into his arms. This is "love" according to the director...
...choreography-for LaFosse, as Tony, to Something's Coming. It is a buoyant, flying solo. Darting in all directions, trying out the paths his life might take, LaFosse again shows he is an ideal Robbins dancer, whether on Broadway or in ballet. The other standout is Nancy Ticotin, who plays Anita, Chita Rivera's role in the original production. A Broadway gypsy diva, Ticotin gives an all-out, earthy performance...
...rest of the cast fares better, though their performances display little more than simple competence. Particularly good are Wahl who brings an authentic Brooklyn charm to Corelli and Rachel Ticotin who, as Isabella, manages to survive several of Gould's most abysmal lines...
...there are some good, quick comic bits among the gang in the station house, an interesting doomed romance between Newman and a Puerto Rican nurse (Rachel Ticotin), and some all right, brutal but brief action. Beyond that, the movie takes a liberal attitude toward its milieu, falling neither into despair nor into the tough-minded rightist posturing that marks most police epics, which tend to be cut along the Dirty Harry bias...
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