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...plot is straightforward boy-meets-girl and depends on such conventions as a villain in a top hat and rescuers in disguises (one does a drag impersonation of Queen Victoria). The stage is tiny and the choreography consequently minimal, yet in one serendipitous moment a painted cloth is lit from behind to become a foggy, gaslit, sweeping vista of a Sherlock Holmes-style England...
Only at the climax does Frankenheimer build something durable out of the mayhem: a metaphorical bridge between old and new Japan, between the integrity of the samurai and the ingenuity of the technocrat. The warlord's fortress is an executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around...
...villain of the piece does not lurk in the depths but rides the surface. Paloma's brother Jo discovers her spot and decides, with his two companions, to cast his fishing nets there. She cannot stop them or prevent news of the find from reaching all the other fishermen in her village. But she bumps into an improbable ally: a giant manta ray that seems as interested in preserving the seamount as she is. Lest credulity be overstrained, a dust-jacket photograph shows Author Benchley riding on the back of a manta...
...gives to the community. In debates over institutional expansion into city neighborhoods, the failure of Cambridge's non profit private universities to provide ample in lieu of tax payments, and the need for private assistance to the Cambridge public schools. Harvard has consistently been cited as a major villain. The contradictions between the words of Harvard officials and their actions have been all too readily apparent...
...statement in your Cinema review that the villain Wez is "Apache-coiffed" is wrong. The hair style in question might have been seen on a Mohawk, one of the five tribes of the Iroquois Nation, but never on any self-respecting Apache...