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despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing .
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a pack of dogs who are smarter than him
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are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay
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1,054
much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand
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1,056
muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious .
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1,061
comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women
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1,078
trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead
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1,092
a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino 's climactic shootout -- and
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1,096
, the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired .
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1,100
is n't heated properly , so that it ends up
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1,107
devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special .
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1,109
a waterlogged version of ` fatal attraction ' for the teeny-bopper set ...
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1,116
by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen
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1,119
is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own
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1,132
everything 's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull .
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1,136
ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it were n't true
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1,147
we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but
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1,148
it 's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman .
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1,150
run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through
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1,161
comes across as a fairly weak retooling .
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1,164
conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc. -- to do the subject matter justice
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1,167
is standard crime drama fare ... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull .
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1,177
of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd
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1,181
, the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way .
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1,184
an uninspired preachy and clichéd war film .
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1,186
it 's the worst movie i 've seen this summer
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1,188
one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio
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1,189
( seagal 's ) strenuous attempt at a change in expression
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1,191
promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera .
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1,194
nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap
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1,196
lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse
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1,205
knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers
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1,207
just is n't as weird as it ought to be .
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1,215
all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s .
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1,229
it would fit chan like a $ 99 bargain-basement special .
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1,231
one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed
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1,242
a movie character more unattractive or odorous ( than leon )
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1,245
, scoob and shag do n't eat enough during the film . '
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1,252
is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .
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1,283
've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before
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1,284
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary .
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1,287
the film does n't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and
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1,290
violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining .
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1,295
is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy .
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1,297
4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos ,
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1,301
the writing and direction to the soggy performances
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1,312
straight from the saturday morning cartoons
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lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable .
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1,319
under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic
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1,325
especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand
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1,330
two guys yelling in your face for two hours
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1,332
cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth
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1,341
the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch
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1,343
( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really
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1,353
be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002
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a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior
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1,368
too bad kramer could n't make a guest appearance to liven things up .
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1,372
descends into such message-mongering moralism
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1,385
underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images
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1,386
falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie 's reality and stifling its creator 's comic voice .
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1,387
convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons
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1,402
human impulses that grew hideously twisted
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1,404
this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged
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1,423
contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive
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1,424
the film is way too full of itself ; it 's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way
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1,425
any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly
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1,432
is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be
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1,435
of bland hotels , highways , parking lots
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that you 've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch
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1,448
helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy ,
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1,455
hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild
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1,456
revelatory nor truly edgy -- merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored .
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1,476
exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise
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1,481
does n't work because there is no foundation for it
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1,487
makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .
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1,488
inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material
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1,493
is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical
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1,500
will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo
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1,503
fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals
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1,506
others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere .
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1,515
-- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline
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1,517
it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche .
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1,519
too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe
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1,526
ms. paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona
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1,528
star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life
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1,534
encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed .
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turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end
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1,538
a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling .
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1,540
that even its target audience talked all the way through it
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1,542
halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course
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1,547
could n't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions .
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1,549
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .
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1,558
like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok
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1,559
seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick
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1,563
even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel
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1,567
the piano teacher is not an easy film .
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1,574
muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious
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1,575
features nonsensical and laughable plotting
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1,576
served by the movie 's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick
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1,578
reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans
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