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But the irony, you see, is that I get slammed for posting specific reviews by others, yet here we have...
Posted by clarkjohnsen on August 9, 2007 at 08:39:18:
...a review by majority decision! Of a bunch of wannabe (not "top") major critics.
And by the way, that incredible-looking "97% favorable" designation masks the reality of an 8.2 out of 10 average, i.e. four stars out of five. Not bad, but not a grand slam either.
Myself, I go for what Anthony Lane, or Ty Burr, or Duncan Shepherd, or James Verniere, say, might say -- these guys' approaches to film are already well-known to me.
Finally, I did not write it was a *bad* movie, only that it did *very efficiently* what it set out to do, which wasn't much; and there were major lapses in the plotting.
clark
PS So what did *you* think of it?