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...varying degrees of success, but it is a credit to the director and scriptwriter (Stallone himself!) that the film never takes the easy way out of a situation. Brandenberg is the best example; it would have been all too easy for his character to be the stereotypical snarling villain who deserves and receives his comeuppance at film’s end. But just as Bly is more anti-hero than your garden-variety all-American hunk of beefy goodness, Brandenberg is shown to be a human, with both flaws and admirable virtues. One expects him to play the villain...
...reach of poor countries while greedily blocking the production of generic copies. That has stunned the industry into a price war in reverse: in one month the cost of AIDS therapies in the developing world has fallen by as much as 90%. "The industry has been cast as the villain in all this," says Philip Thomson, spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline. "That's definitely had an effect...
...issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty, suspended new arsenic standards for drinking water - and began to look suspiciously like the eco-villain Al Gore warned us about. Moderate Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work on Bush's environmental makeover - a series of announcements meant to add some much needed chlorophyll to the President's image. The White House...
...considerably tamer here. Hsu Chi, one of the few actresses in modern cinema to possess acting skills to accompany her pretty face, barely registers in her throwaway part. Perhaps the only actor to acquit himself well is Taiwanese R&B popstar Alex To. Despite his role as the main villain, he receives only 10 minutes of screentime. But he puts each one to good use, snarling viciously as the only truly charismatic actor on display...
Singer Till Lindemann delivers the lyrics in a movie-villain baritone (even counting to 10, as he does at the beginning of “Sonne,” carries a certain menace), while Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers’ drive home guitar riffs sharp enough to put Limp Bizkit et al. to shame. But what sets Mutter apart is the group’s newfound attention to dynamics and detail—often, as on the anthemic “Ich Will,” brief ambient soundscapes make the whole track greater than...