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...wacky content, the film has strangely subdued feel; the lack of energy is palpable to the viewer. Brian Tufano's camera, which was so sharp and dynamic in Trainspotting and so creepily sedate in Shallow Grave is only able to capture flat, washed out images. Setups that ought to be bold and striking are rendered as drab and sluggish...
...other breaches by the ATF. The film becomes jarring and shocking at these points, usually credits for a film. Yet this shock value obscures some of the facts of the case. The mass suicide by the Branch Davidians is insufficiently covered. The gratuitous use of graphic images disgusts the viewer, implying that the ATF was automatically complicit simply because the Davidians died so gruesomely...
Smith's own experience as a seasoned "slam" artist is evident: her delivery of her own piece is remarkable. The viewer quite literally gets chills watching Smith's fury overtake her face during the most powerful part of the poem, when the undertaker fights off an urge to "take [the mother] down / to the chilly room, open the bag" and confront her with the remains of her son, so she can grasp the reality of his death, "wither finally, and move...
There, in fact, lies a fault with Fulbeck's film as a whole: too often important ideas are lost as the viewer frantically tries to make sense of the disorder of processing three different types of information all at once. Most annoyingly, two voices can almost always be heard in the soundtrack to the video, reciting different speeches simultaneously, and a great deal of the effect of either speech dissipates in this technique...
...clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing. As in good mafia films--like The Godfather and Good-fellas--the viewer finds a certain beauty and morality in a family that inhabits a world of such smut, frivolity and immorality...