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...matter how sweeping Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's vision of a navy that can "protect state interests on the seas and oceans," his fleet cannot transcend the limitations of geography . Reports that some 40 freighters and tankers were trapped in ice-clogged Arctic seas last fall underscore the restraints that the absence of warm-water ports has imposed on Russian dreams of being a maritime power. Two of the Soviet Union's four fleets can gam access to the sea only through strategic waterways that are not under Soviet control, the Baltic Sea and the Dardanelles...
...EVEN WITH witticisms and highly skilled leads, the cast of The Buddy System cannot transcend the vapid world of cliche. For every unforgettable line that the screenplay offers us, there are ten others that sound as if they were borrowed from The Brady Bunch. We are constantly confronted with trite statements like, "Wouldn't it be nice if we had a real family and a father who went to work every day?", "I need time to explore my space," and "Love the things you can do well." By the end of the first 30 minutes, the movie sounds like little...
...film's failure to transcend conventional stereotype is as cumbersome as its reliance on stock gags and "cute" statements. Director Jordan's idea of humor--falling brooms and burning toast--is admittedly a sign of domestic chaos, but certainly an insufficient ploy to keep the audience in hysterics. Similarly, Wheaton's gratuitous use of slang phrases like "shit" and "knocked up" quickly becomes sophomoric and intellectually insulting to the audience...
...bestseller's list. Milly accuses Kit of luring her husband (Jamie Wolf) and daughter Deidre (Nora Jaskowiak) from her; Deidre unwittingly sweeps Kit's boyfriend Rudd (Matthew Haynes) off his feet. None of this, however, is powerful enough to shatter the relationship between the two, which somehow manages to transcend all differences...
...filmmakers--led by director Roger Spottiswode--are sympathetic to the Left here, and with good cause. Even by the not-so-high standards of right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the government of Anastasio Somoza was a sorry lot, oozing corruption and brutality. And yet Under Fire is able to transcend a doctrinaire manifesto for the Revolution, and instead presents simply a reasoned appeal for common sense. In a word, the movie is believable, and the case made for the Sandinistas is more convincing than, say a heavy-handed Costa-Gavras would have us believe in his black and white world...